Courage Is Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit that prosper.
- Joe Abercrombie

Courage is found in unlikely places.
- J R R Tolkien

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
- Gerry Adams

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes
- Joseph Addison

Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.
- Jaachynma N E Agu

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
- Edward Albert

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
- Mitch Albom

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
- Vittorio Alfieri

Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
- Maya Angelou

The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anywayeven when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that's not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.
- Oprah Winfrey

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

One man with courage is a majority.
- Thomas Jefferson

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
- Thomas Aquinas

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
- Hannah Arendt

Courage is a kind of salvation.
- Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- Plato

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
- Meg Cabot

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
- Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
- Aristotle

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
- Aristotle

A man of courage is also full of faith.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
- David Bengurion

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
- David Bengurion

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is not walking into battle with no fear - you should know this as a soldier. Courage is feeling great fear, but walking forward anyway.
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- Lynna Banning

I don't like being here with these people and animals. I'm going to retire, but remember, courage is doing what we know is dangerous. It's risking our safety for a chance at something better. Don't let your fears shape your reality because no matter how cautious you are, someone or something always sneaks in the back door to manifest that fear. Better to face it and defeat it than to let it attack you unawares. (Maxis)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
- L Frank Baum

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
- Albert Camus

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
- Albert Camus

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.
- Derrick A Bell

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
- Franklin D Roosevelt

I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.
- Lisa Tawn Bergren

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
- William Blake

Courage is ignoring your fear.
- Tamara Rose Blodgett

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson

Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake...Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.
- Michael Scott

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place. -Jo
- Nicholas Sparks

Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
- William S Burroughs

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.
- Jim Butcher

It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity, with their vast mass of idle books and idle words, have never doubted and never will doubt that courage is splendid, that fidelity is noble, that distressed ladies should be rescued, and vanquished enemies spared. There are a large number of cultivated persons who doubt these maxims of daily life.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

Political courage is not political suicide.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Joseph Chamberlain

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
- Agatha Christie

Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.
- Emil Cioran

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
- Tom Clancy

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again
- David Clement Davies

Courage is not being fearless - it is created by overcoming your fears.
- Courtney Cole

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.
- Chris Colfer

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
- Jeremy Collier

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous [He is also a fool.].
- Robert A Heinlein

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
- Confucius

Every man of courage is a man of his word.
- Pierre Corneille

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
- Bryce Courtenay

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
- Stephen Covey

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.
- Justin Cronin

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
- Timothy Dalton

I don't always knew where this life is going. I can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: Courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step. It is about Peter getting out of the boat, stepping out onto the water with complete faith that Jesus will not let him drown.
- Katie J Davis

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
- Delmore Schwartz

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
- Benjamin Disraeli

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?
- Sharon M Draper

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart

Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.
- Robert Kennedy

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
- Robert Kennedy

courage is the gift of character
- Euripides

Physical courage is a great test.
- Oriana Fallaci

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
- Oriana Fallaci

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.
- Robert Fanney

Courage is not the absence of fear it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
- Nelson Mandela

I don't want to sound like Pollyanna," she began, "but you haven't grasped me yet. My courage is faith- faith in the eternal resilience of me- that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide- not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often- and the female hell is deadlier than the male.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. But, and that is the greatest question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, for I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideas and my fantasies.
- Anne Frank

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
- Anne Frank

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)
- Rollo May

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
- Rollo May

Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzingly emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action.....no matter what. So you're afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!
- Richelle E Goodrich

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
- Ruth Gordon

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.
- Heather Graham

Courage is where you find it. Bravery that comes from a bottle-- or from book or from a sermon-- lacks the full strength and purity of bravery that comes straight from the heart.
- Tom Robbins

Courage is always the surest wisdom.
- Wilfred Grenfell

Making a dream come true is like taking control of an airplane high up in the stratosphere and landing it safely on the ground a measure of forethought, skill and courage is definitely required.
- Silvia Hartmann

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

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.
- Aaron Hill

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die.
True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.
- Robin Hobb

It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
- Henrik Ibsen

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
- Henrik Ibsen

Denounce useless guilt. Don't make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
- Erica Jong

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
- Joyce Meyer

Courage is a vitamin best swallowed with whiskey.
- Jarod Kintz

Courage is a commodity I sell in times of peace. But then my father was a chicken farmer.
- Jarod Kintz

Courage is the chiaroscuro of characteristics. By that I mean I don't know what I mean.
- Jarod Kintz

The essence of courage is timing. Take me, for example. I'll show up to fight anybody, anywhere. I'll just show up a day late.
- Jarod Kintz

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
- Charles Kennedy

Courage is exhilarating.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
- Arthur Koestler

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
- George Konrad

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
- Dean Koontz

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul
- Dean Koontz

Courage... is fear holding on just a bit longer.
- Kathryn Lasky

This is where the wise man turns away. This is where the holy kneel and call on God. These are the last miles, my brothers. Don't look to me to save you. Don't think I will not spend you. Run if you have the wit. Pray if you have the soul. Stand your ground if courage is yours. But don't follow me.
Follow me, and I will break your heart.
- Mark Lawrence

I wanted you to see something about herI wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.
- Harper Lee

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- Harper Lee

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.
- Harper Lee

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
- Harper Lee

Courage is fear on its knees.
- Beverly Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C S Lewis

Courage is always rewarded.
- Kenny Loggins

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
- Clare Boothe Luce

Courage is accepting your fear and doing whatever needs to be done anyway. Cowards are people who can't face up to their fear and let it get the better of them. There's always a place for courage. There's always something that can be done. You might not see it right away. Sooner or later something comes to mind that can help you through it. You make up your mind that it's okay to be afraid and you are going to be all right. Then you do what has to be done. That's courage.
- Alex Lukeman

Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace."
"I thought that if you had courage you always had it."...
"Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.
- Jonathan Maberry

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
- Cormac Mccarthy

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
- Dan Millman

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
- Josefina Vazquez Mota

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.
- Lee Myungbak

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity..
- Ralph Nader

Magic is overrated. Courage is what matters.
- Chloe Neill

Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.
- Cheryl Nielsen

Part of courage is simple consistency.
- Peggy Noonan

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
- George S Patton

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
- George S Patton

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- George S Patton

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
- Joyce Carol Oates

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown
- Osho

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
- Christopher Paolini

The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
- Christopher Paolini

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
- Christopher Paolini

It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. -Brom
- Christopher Paolini

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
- Christopher Paolini

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.
- Blaine Lee Pardoe

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
- John Petitsenn

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
- Plautus

Want of courage is the last thing to be pardoned by young men, who usually look upon bravery as the chief of all human virtues, and the excuse for every possible fault.
- Alexander Pushkin

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.
- Donna Quesada

Courage is defined by how we meet unfortunat circumstances - inevitable or not.
- Kate Quinn

Courage doen't always roar, sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying: i will try again tomorrow
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end ofthe day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage does not always soar, sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

courage and confidence are practical necessities, that courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one's own consciousness.
- Ayn Rand

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
- Dan Rather

Courage is action, not talk.
- Jeff Rich

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
- Gregory David Roberts

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.
- Frances Rodman

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is living by the free will that one creates for themselves, not the life of monotony determined by another.
- Michelle D Rosado

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
- Leo Rosten

I do not lack fear. Don't you understand? Courage is not found in lacking fear, courage is found in not allowing your fear to rule you. Think, young knight, would there bea ny courage required to face that which you do not fear?
- Jenelle Leanne Schmidt

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
- Norman Schwarzkopf

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
- Dan Simmons

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
- William Slim

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
- Horace Smith

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage.... Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
- Dejan Stojanovic

The greatest courage is always quiet.
- Michel Templet

LOVING SOMEONE IS NOT TOUGH BUT THE REAL COURAGE IS, TO FORGET YOUR LOVING ONE
- Anuj Tiwari

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
- Peter Ustinov

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
- Ayelet Waldman

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
- Margaret Walker

Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is.... True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care--with no one there to see or cheer.
- David Foster Wallace

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
- Mary Wesley

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

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

Love is the virtue of the Heart,
Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind,
Decision is the virtue of the Will,
Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers!
- Zane