Courage Quotes

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Political courage is not political suicide.

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

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

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.