Courage Quotes

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

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

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Courage is always rewarded.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.