Courage Quotes

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.

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

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

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

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.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

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

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

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

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

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

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

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.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

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

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Courage is always rewarded.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

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.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

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