Courage Quotes

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Lewis Mumford

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius

One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
John Wooden

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

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

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

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Stephen Leacock

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Robert Anthony

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

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz

Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Euripides

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
Marie Antoinette

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

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Winston Churchill

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck

Nothing but courage can guide life.
Vauvenargues

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

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.
William Butler Yeats

I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
Winston Churchill

The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Winston Churchill

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Henry Van Dyke

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de Montaigne

In politics, guts is all.
Barbara Castle

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
Janeane Garofalo

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas Hardy

There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
Stokely Carmichael

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Margaret Mitchell

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong

Courage, my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world.
Tommy Douglas

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
Leo Rosten

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Oriana Fallaci

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
Wallis Simpson

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
Gabriele D’Annunzio

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Dan Rather

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear and courage are brothers.
A Proverb

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly