Courage Quotes

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

He who is brave is free.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Boldness be my friend.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Creativity takes courage.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

One man with courage is a majority.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Courage is grace under pressure.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'