Courage Quotes

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.