Courage Quotes

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Walt Disney

Umberto Eco

Bruce Lee

Nelson Mandela

Marie Antoinette

J. R. R. Tolkien

Helen Keller

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Marie Antoinette

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

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Janeane Garofalo

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

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

Chester W. Nimitz

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Mercy Otis Warren

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

George Horace Lorimer

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

John Quincy Adams

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

Most of people talk, we do things. They plan, we achieve. They hesitate, we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that

Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

W. Clement Stone

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce