Courage Quotes

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.