Courage Quotes
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Have the courage of your desire.
George Gissing
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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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Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.
Millicent Fawcett
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Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
Bill Crawford
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Courage is knowing what to fear.
Plato
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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Courage is the gift of character.
Euripides
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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
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A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
Confucius
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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
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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
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How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?
Marcel Proust
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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
Stephen Covey
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I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. Then I just go for it.
Tom Cruise
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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
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Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.
Paul Dirac
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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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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
Jeff Goodell
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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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There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly
Miranda Kerr
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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
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One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Emile Chartier
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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