Courage Quotes

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

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

Giacomo Casanova

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

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Delmore Schwartz

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

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

Teresa of Ávila

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.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.

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

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

James Callaghan

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