Courage Quotes

• Courage is knowing what to fear.

  

  Plato
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Knowing

• Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Courage
  • Fathers
  • Sons

• 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
  • Important
  • Courage
  • Afraid

• 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
  • Character
  • Silence
  • Mystery

• But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

  

  Ray Stannard Baker
  • Consciousness
  • Stronger
  • Backed

• Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Done
  • Courage
  • Forgiveness

• Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

  

  Paul Dirac
  • Progress
  • Courage
  • Intelligence

• Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival.

  

  Sarah McBride
  • Living
  • Survival
  • Act

• I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

  

  Susana Martinez
  • Blame
  • Plans
  • Politicians

• No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Desire
  • Courage
  • Hungry

• 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
  • Brave
  • Generation
  • Heroic

• What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Patience

• The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Book
  • Truth
  • Reason

• Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

  

  David Clement-Davies
  • Love
  • Darkness
  • Terrible

• We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Effort

• To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Courage
  • Goal

• Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Absence

• A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.

  

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
  • Courage
  • Win
  • Commitment

• Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Courage
  • Selfish

• 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
  • Running
  • Courage
  • Gun

• The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • Freedom
  • Fall
  • Silence

• Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Money
  • Influence
  • Force

• We are not people apart; there is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely; no reason why we shouldn't suffer to uphold that which we want to endure than it is anyone else. And it is a matter of self-preservation right this very minute...May God give me courage to do my duty and not falter.

  

  Nile Kinnick
  • Courage
  • Fight
  • Duty

• A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

  

  Confucius
  • Courage
  • Brave
  • Good Man

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