Courage Quotes

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

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

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

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

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

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