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Courage is the mental or moral strength to face and persevere through fear, danger, or adversity, often in the pursuit of personal values or the greater good. It is an essential human quality that enables individuals to confront challenges, take risks, and make difficult decisions, even in the face of uncertainty or potential negative consequences. Courage can manifest in various forms, from physical bravery to emotional resilience, and plays a significant role in personal growth, character development, and societal progress.
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"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."
Thucydides"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."
Dale Carnegie"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Andre Gide"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."
Ray Bradbury"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."
Jim Hightower"We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends."
Mary McLeod Bethune"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."
John Wayne"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T. S. Eliot"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."
Billy Graham"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."
E. F. Schumacher"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."
Carl von Clausewitz"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Steve Jobs"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."
Alan Cohen"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."
Eddie Rickenbacker"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
Erica Jong"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."
Benjamin Disraeli"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."
Joseph Smith, Jr."Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
Maya Angelou"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."
Nelson Mandela"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
Muhammad Ali"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
Aristotle"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
Charlie Chaplin"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.'"
Ronda Rousey"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
John F. Kennedy"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
Omar N. Bradley"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
Rollo May"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
Robert Green Ingersoll"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
J. K. Rowling"Courage is grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway"Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love."
Morihei Ueshiba"Boldness be my friend."
William Shakespeare"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow."
Dan Rather"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean."
Christopher Reeve"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."
W. Clement Stone"The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!"
Joyce Meyer"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
Franklin P. Jones"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
Marcus Garvey"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
Plato"Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles."
Bob Richards"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."
Miguel de Cervantes"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage."
Charles Luckman"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."
Ovid"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."
Francis Ford Coppola"Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life."
Don Miguel Ruiz"One man with courage is a majority."
Thomas Jefferson"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."
Ronald Reagan"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."
Pope John Paul II"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."
Rollo May"We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community."
Haile Selassie"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
C. S. Lewis"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
Helen Keller"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
Samuel Johnson"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."
Horace"Being gifted needs courage."
Georg Brandes"Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success."
Thomas J. Stanley"Only those who have the courage to take a penalty miss them."
Roberto Baggio"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
William Shakespeare"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."
Hermann Hesse"Courage is found in unlikely places."
J. R. R. Tolkien"We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
Barbara De Angelis"When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know."
Lou Gehrig"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."
Ovid"He who is brave is free."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
Coco Chanel"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die."
Les Brown"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
Confucius"Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?"
Virgil"Courage is a kind of salvation."
Plato"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"
Thomas A. Edison"Courage in danger is half the battle."
Plautus"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act."
Andre Malraux"We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit."
Tom Brown, Jr."A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."
Lewis Mumford"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
David Viscott"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined."
Leo Rosten"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
Mignon McLaughlin"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."
Rabindranath Tagore"Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."
Nelson Mandela"Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things."
Jesse Jackson"Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done."
John Keegan"The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect."
Brene Brown"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
Theodore Roosevelt"To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first."
Janeane Garofalo"The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans."
Robert Kennedy"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."
Julia Cameron"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
Gerry Adams"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
Sydney Smith"True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is."
Norman Schwarzkopf"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
Vincent Van Gogh"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
John Wooden"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back."
Publilius Syrus"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
Maxwell Maltz"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
Miguel de Cervantes"You have to have a spirit of courage and adventure, or else you're going to find it tough to get up in the morning sometimes."
Justine Musk"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."
Michel de Montaigne"Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one."
Bertrand Russell"Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition."
Rahm Emanuel"I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out."
Judith Light"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."
Henri Frederic Amiel"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
Carl von Clausewitz"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."
Margaret Mitchell"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth."
Margaret Walker"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."
Charles Caleb Colton"I want to be a voice to young children and women and people of all ages to go for their dreams, to be resilient and have courage. Don't let fear motivate you. The American Dream says that all things are possible, and I genuinely believe that."
Lana"Courage is the birthplace of confidence."
Debbie Millman"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again."
Noel Coward"Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it."
Timothy Dalton"Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness."
John Bytheway"It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times."
Bindi Irwin"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."
Loretta Young"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle."
Rollo May"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
Alfred North Whitehead"It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless."
Giacomo Casanova"I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly."
Oprah Winfrey"We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out."
John Lewis"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."
Harry Emerson Fosdick"There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart."
Daisaku Ikeda"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."
Pericles"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."
Mason Cooley"A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace."
Suze Orman"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."
Elizabeth Taylor"I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life."
John Prendergast"Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage."
Frances Perkins"Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance."
Hans Urs von Balthasar"Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard."
Leonardo da Vinci"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."
Marlene Dietrich"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle."
Confucius"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."
Maya Angelou"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
Reinhold Niebuhr"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."
Albert Camus"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
Erich Fromm"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
Harper Lee"Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear."
Gabby Douglas"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Niebuhr"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."
Dennis Prager"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
Mary Tyler Moore"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
Jacqueline Bisset"I don't have courage in my convictions and I'm not interested in serious things or politics: if you're doing an hour of standup, you should talk about a few serious things."
Alex Horne"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
Thomas Hardy"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."
Frances Wright"Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'"
Orison Swett Marden"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."
Channing Pollock"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit."
Oscar Wilde"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality."
Jonas Salk"The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it."
Margaret Heffernan"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
E. M. Forster"If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world."
Antonin Scalia"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."
Baltasar Gracian"Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day."
Thalia"The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."
Wendell Phillips"Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage."
Angela Merkel"When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial."
Zoe Saldana"Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business."
Ben Horowitz"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. -David Ben"
Gurion"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."
Nathaniel Hawthorne"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
William Tecumseh Sherman"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
George S. Patton"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton"To see the right and not to do it is cowardice."
Confucius"We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty."
Jonathan Sacks"I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service."
John F. Kerry"Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity."
Ricky Martin"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
Jonas Salk"Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances."
Robert Crumb"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."
Marlon Brando"Optimism is the foundation of courage."
Nicholas M. Butler"Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later."
Bob Filner"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."
William Blake"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."
Robert Falcon Scott"The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies."
Parker Posey"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."
Napoleon Bonaparte"I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, 'This is what it is. This is unfair; that's not cool.'"
Hasan Minhaj"Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline."
Hallie Ephron"The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories."
Richard Dawkins"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings."
Robert Peel"I have huge respect for women who go out of their homes and have the courage to make their own destiny. And let me tell you, Indian women are doing a great job. There are those who work because they have no option but to earn, and then there are those who do it because they have the right talent. I respect both."
Shilpa Shetty"The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge."
Carl Lewis"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."
Arthur Koestler"Fate loves the fearless."
James Russell Lowell"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."
Saint Teresa of Avila"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
Eleanor Roosevelt"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Orison Swett Marden"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
e. e. cummings"The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it."
Kalpana Chawla"The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people."
Kailash Satyarthi"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."
Michelle Obama"The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility."
Thomas S. Monson"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney"People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'"
Iris Apfel"Dig for feedback on yourself. You need to have the courage to ask for feedback. You need to learn how you can learn how to grow. It is important that you are going to be a lifelong learner."
Scott Cook"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."
Sydney Smith"Political courage is not political suicide."
Arnold Schwarzenegger"Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green."
Torquato Tasso"The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life."
Hill Harper"We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius."
Peter Thiel"There is great strength in vulnerability, as it takes courage to push through the fear and share one's true self with others. In music, that vulnerability really speaks to listeners as it connects with their own hearts."
Anoushka Shankar"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?"
Marie Antoinette"With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice."
Dan Lipinski"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."
B. C. Forbes"Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring."
William Alexander"We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!"
Maya Angelou"When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part."
Charles Stanley"Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams."
Alice Walker"Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are."
Halima Aden"Messi is the more technical player of the two. He's better inside the area, the way he handles the ball and dribbles. You can see that he enjoys himself playing. Cristiano has a better body and is physically very strong. He has pace, speed and is a player with courage, and he can use both feet."
Alfredo Di Stefano"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born."
Malala Yousafzai"War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying."
Russell Crowe"I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love."
Paloma Faith"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not."
David Seabury"I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected."
Caroline Kennedy"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
Thomas Szasz"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
Paul Tillich"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."
Saint Francis de Sales"The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular."
Geraldo Rivera"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
Aristotle"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."
Miguel de Cervantes"Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience."
Kevin Rudd"You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better. -Austin Seferian"
Jenkins"Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out."
Michael Franti"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
Theodore Roosevelt"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."
Albert Camus"From my youngest brother to immigrant women to black queer folks, those are the people who keep me going. When I think about their various acts of courage, it reminds me that I am not alone and that we can do even more, and we deserve more, so we have to keep going."
Opal Tometi"To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is."
Hasan Minhaj"Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process."
Greta Gerwig"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."
Jewel"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being."
James E. Faust"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tzu"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
Nicholas M. Butler"It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove."
Owen D. Young"When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming."
Della Reese"We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on."
Sharon Salzberg"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
Anais Nin"I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive."
Jane Campion"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."
William J. H. Boetcker"Have the courage to act instead of react."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."
Ian Smith"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Earl Wilson"Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that's all part of how I express my identity."
Jessica Mauboy"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
Benjamin Franklin"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
Socrates"From caring comes courage."
Lao Tzu"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."
Peter Ustinov"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."
Umberto Eco"War is fear cloaked in courage."
William Westmoreland"There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions."
Jairam Ramesh"It takes courage to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that you're ugly, or dirty, or a terrorist."
Jagmeet Singh"I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it."
Dorothea Lange"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.'"
Maya Angelou"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."
Virginia Woolf"You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage."
Robert E. Lee"I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible."
Shirley Chisholm"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
Harry S Truman"My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
Clare Boothe Luce"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
Amelia Earhart"There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King."
Orison Swett Marden"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of."
Bethany Hamilton"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
Harry S Truman"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
Chester W. Nimitz"September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage."
Geraldine Brooks"Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world."
Tommy Douglas"During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades."
Xi Jinping"I often think you need a lot of courage to be in the acting business. The job itself can be incredibly challenging for various reasons. Sometimes it's impossible and requires sheer guts."
Sarah Alexander"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
Oscar Wilde"It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces."
Oriana Fallaci"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
Adam Driver"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
Michel de Montaigne"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."
Gloria Steinem"I believe in blood, soil, and honour; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage."
Varg Vikernes"We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage."
Sean Penn"You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success."
Marlee Matlin"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it."
Jenny Shipley"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
Grace Paley"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."
Safra A. Catz"Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."
Maya Angelou"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
Martin Luther King, Jr."I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds."
Louis Nizer"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
Napoleon Bonaparte"You can't test courage cautiously."
Annie Dillard"I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster."
Catherine the Great"I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it."
Maya Angelou"My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it."
John Bunyan"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
Van Wyck Brooks"People don't follow titles, they follow courage."
William Wells Brown"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
Erma Bombeck"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
Leonardo da Vinci"When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed."
Nikos Kazantzakis"One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man."
Ben Okri"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."
Daniel J. Boorstin"For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself."
Deepak Chopra"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
Benito Mussolini"Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice."
John M. McHugh"But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right."
Ray Stannard Baker"Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage."
Neal A. Maxwell"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
Herbert Kaufman"Change takes courage. -Alexandria Ocasio"
Cortez"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
Maya Angelou"If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage. -Jean"
Bertrand Aristide"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."
Stanislaus I"Beautiful is difficult. I admire very much the courage of the people who have said, 'Let's do something different. Let's try to see if our environment will be more beautiful and our city will be more beautiful.'"
Santiago Calatrava"At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage."
Tadao Ando"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Joseph Chamberlain"Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement."
Brene Brown"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."
Paul Tillich"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."
Pablo Casals"Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them."
Anand Mahindra"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."
Billy Graham"True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable."
Jeremy Collier"We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one."
Colin Firth"The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you're wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage."
Tim Cook"The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage."
John Muir"My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions."
Jane Goodall"Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end."
Eddie the Eagle"I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."
Christian Bale"It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits."
Vanessa Paradis"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."
Victor Hugo"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
Jean Paul"The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow."
Marian Anderson"There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies."
Ben Carson"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."
Margaret J. Wheatley"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."
Maya Angelou"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
Robert Louis Stevenson"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
Ralph W. Sockman"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others."
Brene Brown"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage."
Peter Paul Rubens"It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman."
John Eldredge"Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people."
Sigourney Weaver"Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love."
Delmore Schwartz"As long as you've got your courage of conviction, it works for you. I think that the same applies, too, even where you don't, because in today's world, financial resources are the least important. World has moved to the power of ideas."
Mukesh Ambani"Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear."
Publilius Syrus"Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need."
Kim Yuna"What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity."
Paul Keating"Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe."
Richard Dawkins"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide."
Mickey Mantle"Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'"
Ashton Kutcher"I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness."
Kate Forsyth"Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day."
Bernie Siegel"It takes great strength and courage to ask for help. -Raphael Bob"
Waksberg"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."
John Stuart Mill"Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves."
John Eldredge"All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage."
Vash Young"In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence."
Ben Horowitz"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."
William Congreve"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
Confucius"I actually learned that you should never give up, and if you love something, take courage and absolutely go after it."
Jessica Jung"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."
Orison Swett Marden"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
Logan Pearsall Smith"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."
Dale Carnegie"Life is to be entered upon with courage."
Alexis de Tocqueville"Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free."
Thich Nhat Hanh"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."
Ruby Dee"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing."
David Letterman"I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don't have."
Wayne Shorter"Part of courage is simple consistency."
Peggy Noonan"I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent."
Rahul Dravid"Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter."
Aaron Hill"Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character."
George W. Bush"Despair gives courage to a coward."
Thomas Fuller"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
Plutarch"Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line."
Hugh Grant"When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards."
Richard P. Feynman"I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes."
Mary Tyler Moore"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."
John Steinbeck"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."
Antonio Munoz Molina"But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility."
Erwin Rommel"The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable."
Terri Clark"Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different."
John Hockenberry"A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
Jacqueline Bisset"Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage."
Jason Reynolds"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't."
Mark Goulston"It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins."
Jerome Cady"True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -John Petit"
Senn"In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale."
Caleb Deschanel"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."
J. D. Salinger"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward."
Al Gore"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace."
Michelle Obama"You have to have courage to be obedient to God."
Charles Stanley"I never wanted to become a CA. My father was keen that I become one because he thought that was the right thing for me to do. I didn't have the courage to tell him that I don't want to do it. But now, I can't thank him more for having put me through it."
Kumar Mangalam Birla"Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right."
Nikki Haley"The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness."
Brene Brown"You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps."
George Konrad"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
Vittorio Alfieri"Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are."
Bryant H. McGill"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
Mark Twain"My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you."
Jenna Jameson"It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up."
Ginnifer Goodwin"'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams."
Christopher Lee"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."
George Bernard Shaw"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
Thornton Wilder"Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life."
Zig Ziglar"The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support."
Brene Brown"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
Ronald Reagan"I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you."
C. V. Raman"My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones."
Taya Kyle"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."
Eleanor Roosevelt"Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist."
Jaggi Vasudev"It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice."
Cesar Chavez"A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker."
Ann Bancroft"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt."
Paul Tillich"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."
Louis D. Brandeis"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."
Barbara De Angelis"Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic."
Don Young"It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting."
Glenn Greenwald"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."
Denis Waitley"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
Robert Green Ingersoll"I'd advise the youth to not get influenced or forced by their elders. They should have own political views and choices and the courage to pick the right leader."
Binnu Dhillon"Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness."
Ricky Martin"Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice."
Leon Blum"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
Ruth Gordon"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."
Hillary Clinton"The Scarecrow needed a brain, the Tin Man needed a heart, and the other dude needed courage. I need love. You feel me?"
Ghostface Killah"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
Jean Paul"Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort."
Tara Brach"In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today."
Isabel Allende"In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel."
Rob Lowe"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."
George W. Bush"He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!"
Anne Frank"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."
Thomas Merton"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.'"
Maya Angelou"It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it."
Willy Brandt"Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears."
Susana Martinez"I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed."
Martha Stewart"If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help."
Max Lucado"A man of courage is also full of faith."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference."
Daniel Kahneman"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill"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."
Silvia Cartwright"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."
Joy Mangano"Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma."
Oriana Fallaci"When I wrap my hands, I do it for my family. I owe my courage to them and also my success. That's why I fight."
Gennady Golovkin"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."
George Weinberg"Courage is the fear of being thought a coward."
Horace Smith"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."
Joseph Stalin"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."
John Murray"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be."
George A. Sheehan"Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage."
William Slim"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."
Eric Greitens"Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result."
Joe Torre"That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?"
Gladys Knight"There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different."
Alfred P. Sloan"Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool."
Dean Koontz"Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you."
Rudy Giuliani"You've got to admire my courage going into a picture where the dog is a star. It takes a brave man to play opposite one."
Fred MacMurray"My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation."
Muhammad Ali Jinnah"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
John Stuart Mill"Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'"
Michael Leunig"Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality."
Alanis Morissette"The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality."
Caity Lotz"Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way."
Andrew Shue"It takes courage to come forward, and I don't want any victim of sexual harassment to think twice about doing so."
Kim Reynolds"Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school."
Thomas J. Stanley"Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens."
David Cameron"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."
Thomas S. Monson"In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission."
Gina Haspel"Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage."
Stanley Druckenmiller"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."
Maxwell Maltz"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it."
Carl Friedrich Gauss"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."
Thomas Aquinas"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late."
Andrew Yang"Genius is talent set on fire by courage."
Henry Van Dyke"Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more."
Adam Grant"A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it."
Taylor Swift"Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force."
Robert Green Ingersoll"The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength."
Ai Weiwei"To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage."
Sasha Velour"Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself."
Scott Hamilton"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."
Tori Amos"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
Andrew Johnson"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."
Earl Nightingale"We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action."
Sarojini Naidu"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
Erma Bombeck"To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard."
Brie Larson"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."
George S. Patton"Courage is always rewarded."
Kenny Loggins"We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage."
Angela Merkel"I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self."
Dalia Mogahed"Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person."
Joe Haldeman"The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied."
Haile Selassie"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld"Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny."
Nancy Gibbs"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."
Carly Fiorina"True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself."
Marcela Valladolid"For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend."
Jeff Greenfield"If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween."
Douglas Coupland"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
Robert Louis Stevenson"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Smart growth is having the courage to say yes and having the courage to say no."
Tom Perez"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."
Aristotle"We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience."
Walter Gropius"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."
Robert Anthony"I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable."
Burgess Owens"We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation."
Tara Stiles"Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?"
Charles Lindbergh"In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'"
Lady Gaga"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency."
Desmond Tutu"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."
Napoleon Bonaparte"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
Bruce Lee"Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage."
Paul Keating"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."
Jim Davis"Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing."
Meghan Markle"One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender."
Josefina Vazquez Mota"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."
Thomas Carlyle"I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind."
Billie Eilish"In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years."
Chesty Puller"Every man of courage is a man of his word."
Pierre Corneille"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."
Joseph Pulitzer"At Harman, we had to reinvent ourselves so that we can compete on a global playing field. We did it by instituting a culture where teams can take calculated risks. But to inspire such a shift in mindset requires meaningful rewards across the ranks and freedom to experiment and innovate. I like to think of it as our courage culture."
Dinesh Paliwal"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault."
Branch Rickey"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."
Euripides"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."
John W. Gardner"When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way."
Sam Raimi"It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean."
Ray Comfort"I want to thank all of my opponents. Iron sharpens iron, and every great victory or crushing defeat occurred because there was someone who trained hard and had the courage to meet me across the cage."
Tim Kennedy"The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans."
Dianne Feinstein"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."
Robert Green Ingersoll"To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind."
George Crabbe"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."
Lao Tzu"Have the courage of your desire."
George Gissing"What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'"
Kate Winslet