Courage Quotes

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.

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.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

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.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

Physical courage is a great test.