Courage Quotes

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it...

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how...

Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought n...

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther Kin...

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it...

Survival often demands our courage.

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots...

All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the cou...

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Th...

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity a...

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a...

Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this wo...

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable a...

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like....

It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or anothe...

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elep...

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta ...

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience...

So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and fro...

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. ...

School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years...

It’s a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruel...

Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger misfortune fear injustice while co...

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance...

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel....

Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. ...

What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm."Men have died for les...

She was brave from excess of grief

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn ...

I know that in the end you'll overwhelm me, but I'll still fight you as long as there's a breath in ...

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not bec...

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication. To be unshakeable is the mark of courage. To ...

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...

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

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it i...

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkn...

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

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

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the th...

Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that ...

Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hi...

[C]reative living is a path for the brave.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who yo...

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite ...

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of coward...

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it ...

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white...

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the fun...

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of vi...

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a com...

The coward despairs.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtue...

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spon...

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courag...

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beaut...

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only over...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do he does not have to ... face a situation fearles...

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What y...

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived...

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triump...

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the st...

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do no...

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin...

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But ...

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting we...

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting we...

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Letty's first false step was here: she said to herself _I can not_, and did not. She lacked courage-...

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors...

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he ...

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.