Courage Quotes
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
Erica Jong
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
Ruth Gordon
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
Albert Camus
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Let me tell you right now, you are not alone. Seeking help requires incredible strength and courage. The most powerful weapon you have against bullying is your voice.
Derek Hough
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.
Albert Camus
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No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
Anton Walbrook
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Anyone can die. It's living that requires courage.
Nobuhiro Nishiwaki
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In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
Margaret Mitchell
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For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.
Jon Favreau
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I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.
Eric Greitens
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Courage is not the absence of fear...
Richard Stengel
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TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
Sharon Stone
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Courage is always the surest wisdom.
Wilfred Grenfell
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Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.
Lao Tzu
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Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.
Gerry Lindgren
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Nothing is lost as long as courage remains.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
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Have the courage to make a mistake.
Abraham Low
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
Evan Esar
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It was more than a profession. It was even a therapy, for there I just told it as it was. It takes a lot of courage in life to tell it how it is.
Alice Neel
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I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.
Adela Rogers St. Johns