Courage Quotes
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We must substitute courage for caution.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The world would have you believe that you are not significant, out of touch, and out of style. But remember who you are-a child of God! You must have the courage to stand out and let your light shine like a beacon for all to see.
Elaine S. Dalton
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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 as they are.
Saint Augustine
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There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.
J. G. Holland
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Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Coleman Young
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'Did it ever occur to you that everybody is more or less afraid of nearly everything, and that courage isn't a damn thing but a habit of not dodging things because you're afraid of them?'
Dashiell Hammett
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Ernest Hemingway
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In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking.
John T. Chambers
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Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.
John Ruskin
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Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
Marie Antoinette
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Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.
Josephus Daniels
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Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
Phyllida Lloyd
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Vittorio Alfieri
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For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
Lionel Barrymore
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My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.
Jenna Jameson
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I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
Paul Keating
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Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
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Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.
Quentin L. Cook
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Moral courage means to defy the crowd, to stand up as a solitary individual, to shun the intoxicating embrace of comradeship, and to be disobedient to authority, even at the risk of your life, for a higher principle.
Chris Hedges
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Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
Frank Crowninshield
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I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
Audrey Hepburn
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It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.
Marianne Williamson