Courage Quotes

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.

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

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.

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 the surest wisdom.

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.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

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

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.