Courage Quotes - Page 5

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Plautus

A man of courage never wants weapons.

Anonymous

A brave arm makes a short sword long.

Anonymous

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.

Where life is more terrible than death it is the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointment you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

Colonel John S. Roosman

One man with courage makes a majority.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Julian Weber Gordon

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes.

Rollo May

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

Anonymous

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Barbara De Angelis

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

Teresa of Avila.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

Ralph W Sockman

Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.

Winifred Gordon

We must have the courage to be happy.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

Ovid

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Thomas Bernhard

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

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

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them more strength to relate to people than to dominate them more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit not in muscles and an immature mind.

I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

James Harvey Robinson

The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art.

Joseph H. Odell

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Valour is nobleness of the mind.

Anonymous

Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger misfortune fear injustice while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad but those who taste in living awareness every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

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

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp the latter for the council but to constitute a great man both are necessary.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.

Michel de Montaigne

You're only as sick as your secrets.

Anonymous

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

Anonymous

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

Georges Gurdjieff

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

If the word frankly or sincerely is not uttered in the first ten minutes-or let us speak openly-then you are not in the presence of a genuine businessman and he will certainly go bankrupt.

Francoise Mallet-Joris

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann von Goethe

If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.

Edna Saint Vincent Millay

Truth that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.

Anne Shannon Monroe

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Saint Augustine

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Arthur Guiterman

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.

Angela Thirkell

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth is the vital breath of Beauty Beauty the outward form of Truth.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

Ti-Grace Atkinson

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Anonymous

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Henry David Thoreau

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