Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

courage

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

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

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Creativity takes courage.

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

The more wit the less courage.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

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

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

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

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.

Being gifted needs courage.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

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

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

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

One man with courage makes a majority.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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

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

One man with courage is a majority.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

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

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

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

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

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

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

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

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

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Courage is grace under pressure.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

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.

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

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

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

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

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.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.