Courage Quotes
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Courage is the gift of character.
Euripides
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I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
George Michael
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The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
Arthur Helps
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
Rudyard Kipling
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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.
Bill Crawford
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Erica Jong
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
William Faulkner
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If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."
Charles Alexander Eastman
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Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.
Simon Sinek
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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
Stephen Covey
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
Carson McCullers
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When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.
Paul Dirac
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Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
William Shakespeare
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It is indeed possible for those who have the will, courage and faith.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I think love is important, and loving yourself and being happy and feeling you're worthy of happiness as an individual. One of the most important things is to have the courage to love yourself and share that with the world.
Nomi Ruiz
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It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.
Ellis Paul Torrance
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... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.
Niketas Stethatos
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A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.
Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Stephen Spender
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What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
George Eliot