Quotes about Courage

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

"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.'"

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"Boldness be my friend."

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow."

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."

"The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!"

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

"Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles."

"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."

"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

"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."

"One man with courage is a majority."

"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."