Courage Quotes

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

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.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

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.

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.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

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.

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.