Courage Quotes

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Only those who have the courage to take a penalty miss them.

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

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

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.