Courage Quotes

Something I learned along the way is that you really have to have courage in life. You can do amazing things on any level. It doesn't have to change the world; it can just impact the people around you - that's just as amazing.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The more wit the less courage.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

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

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

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds.