Quotes about courage

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

— Jean Paul Richter

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

— Jean Paul Richter

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

— Jean Paul Richter

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

— Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

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

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

— Judith Rossner

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

— Leo Rosten

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

— Robert H. Schuller

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

— Robert H. Schuller

The will to do, the soul to dare.

— Sir Walter Scott

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

— David Seabury

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

— Seneca

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

— Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

— Seneca

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

— Seneca

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

— Seneca

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

— Seneca

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

— Lord Shaftesbury

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

— William Shakespeare

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

— William Shakespeare

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

— William Shakespeare

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

— George Bernard Shaw

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

— William T. Sherman

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

— William T. Sherman

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

— Willie Shoemaker

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

— Sir Philip Sidney

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

— Donald Smith

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

— Sydney Smith

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

— Stephen Spender

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

— Ralph W. Stockman

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

— W. Clement Stone

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

— W. Clement Stone

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

— David Summers

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

— Alice Mackenzie Swaim

No one reaches a high position without daring.

— Publilius Syrus

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

— Bayard Taylor

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

— Elizabeth Taylor

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

— St. Teresa of Avila

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

— James Thomson

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

— Chogyam Trungpa

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

— Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

— Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

— Mark Twain

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

— Frank Tyger

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

— Source Unknown

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

— Source Unknown

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

— Source Unknown

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

— Source Unknown

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

— Source Unknown

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

— Source Unknown

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

— Source Unknown

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

— Source Unknown

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

— Source Unknown

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

— Source Unknown

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

— Source Unknown

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

— Source Unknown

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

— Source Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

— Source Unknown

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

— Source Unknown

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

— Source Unknown

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

— Source Unknown

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

— Source Unknown

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

— Source Unknown

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

— Bible

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

— Margaret Valois

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

— Voltaire

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

— Denis Waitley

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

— Thomas J. Watson

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

— Ben Weininger

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

— Earl Wilson

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

— James A. Worsham

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

— Owen D. Young

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

— Emiliano Zapata

bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death".

— Omar Bradley

Have courage and standing your ground. No one ever solved nothin' runnin'.

— James Dye

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

— Dejan Stojanovic

If you don't have the courage to walk alone others will not have the courage to walk with you.

— Apoorve Dubey

Fear is met and destroyed with courage

— James F. Bell

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

— Sydney Smith

When calamities end, there comes end to life. So, I sought gimmick to make pleasure from them.

— mirza sharafat hussain zarafshan