Courage Quotes

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

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.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

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

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

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.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

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

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

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

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

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.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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.

Physical courage is a great test.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.