Courage Quotes

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Being gifted needs courage.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

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.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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.