Courage Quotes

I think it is not just the U.N. speaking, but the concept of a third party, a third party to a conflict speaking out. You know, sometimes saying, 'Stop, this is enough. This cannot be allowed to happen,' gives the victims and the people who are caught in that situation courage, encouragement, support.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Necessity does the work of courage.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.