Courage Quotes

War is fear cloaked in courage.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

Being gifted needs courage.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.

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

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

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

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

It is in the power of everybody, with a little courage, to hold out a hand to someone different, to listen, to attempt to increase, by even a tiny amount, the quantity of kindness and humanity in the world.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.