Courage Quotes
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. (Quote by - Joseph Chamberlain)
The T-shirts were the players' idea; it was an appropriate gesture because he'd had such a bad injury just a week before the final. He deserved that. He showed real courage last week - he's taken courage to a new level; courage that convinces you he'll be OK.. (Quote by - Sir Alex Ferguson)
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. (Quote by - Aesop)
Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.. (Quote by - Howard Cosell)
Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. (Quote by - Aaron Hill)
Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side and the. (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. (Quote by - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare)
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty can come at any time. You stand ready to put your lives on hold and answer that call, ... And you did so because you love your state and your country. America appreciates your courageous decision to serve. Together with your comrades in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Reserves, you are showing that patriotism is alive and well in Idaho and throughout the United States.. (Quote by - George Bush)
A very popular error -- having the courage of one's convictions; Rather, it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions.. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess That the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. (Quote by - Euripides)
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.] (Quote by - Dante)
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own good. (Quote by - Pablo Casals)
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. (Quote by - English Proverb)
Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear. (Quote by - Carly Fiorina)
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.. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.] (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. (Quote by - Napoleon I)
There is no question that on the subject of physical courage and moral courage that she was Dr King's equal in every way. So far, there is nothing to suggest that she ever wavered in getting him to take the more aggressive stance he could not only on segregation, but on the Vietnam war.. (Quote by - Howell Raines)
Nothing happens to us which we are not fitted by nature to bear. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.. (Quote by - Contributed by: Anna Williams)
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
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.. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage.. (Quote by - Tom Coburn)
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.. (Quote by - David Viscott)
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
You can't test courage cautiously. (Quote by - Anne Dillard)
This is why I say you were so courageous, because you know what courage is.. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.. (Quote by - Charles Swindoll)
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledged - desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend.. (Quote by - Carolyn Heilbrun)
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. (Quote by - Lyndon Baines Johnson)
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. (Quote by - Edward Estlin Cummings)
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)
It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove. (Quote by - Owen D. Young)
He's got courage. Most people would use a disability as a reason to not do what they love. But not Wade. He's one of a kind. And his courage gives me courage.. (Quote by - Chris Coleman)
This governor wasted $50 million, and he does not have the courage to apologize to all of you for the trash he talked about you. He doesn't have the courage to say he was wrong, that we're the real heroes of California.. (Quote by - Barbara Kerr)
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. (Quote by - Robert Greene)
Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves.. (Quote by - Clint Eastwood)
The reason that I choose this meeting, as my first meeting on my first trip to the Middle East is to talk about the courage of this institution, ... I praised Sheik Tantawi for his courage, and he said it is not courage but I did the right thing to speak out against terrorism and extremism.. (Quote by - Karen Hughes)
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. (Quote by - John Petit-Senn)
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. (Quote by - Bible)
But straightway Jesus spake upto them saying, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid. (Quote by - Bible)
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is willpower.. (Quote by - Lord Moran)
O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death. (Quote by - Homer)
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. (Quote by - Channing Pollock)
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Courage is the thing; all goes if courage goes. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it.. (Quote by - Jonathan Kozol)
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
I think such actions need courage and boldness, ... What we have seen on the TV, Israelis not wanting to leave, being forced out, is a courageous thing to do. We hope that he shows (an) equal amount of courage finally in the creation of the Palestinian state.. (Quote by - Pervez Musharraf)
We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You can't open your heart and not have some hurt because you're in a human experience. Even if it's the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, it's a human experience and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous.. (Quote by - Mary Manin Morrissey)
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. (Quote by - Robert Blair)
One man with courage makes a majority. (Quote by - Andrew Jackson)
I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache." (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
To forgive someone Takes courage, but to ask someone for there forgiveness takes true courage.... (Quote by - thomas wzorek)
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. (Quote by - Oliver J. Hart)
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.. (Quote by - Edward Vernon Rickenbacker)
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.. (Quote by - Augustine of Hippo)
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others. (Quote by - Joseph Chamberlain)
When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
I think the Romans call it Stoicism. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.. (Quote by - Mary Anne Radmacher)
The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. (Quote by - Cicero)
As I look at my nation, I am generally impressed by the physical courage of its citizenry but distressed by the lack of intellectual or moral courage. I think this is important because most quotes about bravery refer to physical courage. Yet if my nation is to go down the tubes, I suspect it will be more because of a deficit in its intellectual bravery.. (Quote by - M. Scott Peck)
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.. (Quote by - Horace)
Courage is grace under pressure. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
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.. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. (Quote by - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
A man of courage is also full of faith. (Quote by - Cicero)
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.. (Quote by - Tori Amos)
No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation. (Quote by - Joseph Bryant)
What a new face courage puts on everything! (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
