Courage Quotes - Page 2

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

Pierre Corneille

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

Freedom is not for the timid.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Plautus

In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.

William Shakespeare

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Wilfred Grenfell

Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women maybe out of astonishment.

Margaret Atwood

On many of the great issues of our time men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.

Carolyn Heilbrun

If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.

Terence

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Charles Kennedy

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Plato

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

Sir James M. Barrie

Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.

Eugene E. Brussell

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

G.K. Chesterton

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.

Cicero

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

Francois de Fenelon

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

Douglas Malloch

Courage is what preserves our liberty safety life and our homes and parents our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Plautus

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Mary McLeod Bethune

If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.

Mignon McLaughlin

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

Edwin H. Chapin

We would be cowards if we had courage enough.

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.

Diane de Poitiers

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Anonymous

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Henry S. Haskins

I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.

Jerome P. Fleishman

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

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

G.K. Chesterton

Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Rollo May

Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Courage is its own reward.

Plautus

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Sallust

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

James A. Michener

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

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