Courage Quotes

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Walt Disney

J. R. R. Tolkien

Marie Antoinette

Umberto Eco

Nelson Mandela

Bruce Lee

Anne Frank

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

To the priest who had accompanied her to the foot of the guillotine, who had whispered, "This is the moment, Madame, to arm yourself with courage."

Marie Antoinette

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.

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

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

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

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

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

Chester W. Nimitz

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.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

Frances Perkins

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

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

Teresa of Ávila

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

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

Delmore Schwartz

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

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

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

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