Courage Quotes

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Walt Disney

J. R. R. Tolkien

Marie Antoinette

Umberto Eco

Nelson Mandela

Bruce Lee

Anne Frank

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Marie Antoinette

All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he does not repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity and courage in an event bigger than he was.

To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.

Teresa of Ávila

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Alexander Berkman

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Chester W. Nimitz

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher

I am going to my Fathers, and tho' with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought his battles, who will now be my rewarder.

Mr Valiant-for-Truth

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

György Konrád

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God disappears in the anxiety of doubt.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage.
Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession, and he only wants an opportunity to execute what he is convinced he has been perfectly taught.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Giacomo Casanova

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

Joseph Pulitzer

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.