Courage Quotes

I actually learned that you should never give up, and if you love something, take courage and absolutely go after it.

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

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.

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.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

We must have courage to set partisanship aside and embrace the best ideas and solutions no matter which side of the aisle they come from.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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

It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.