Courage Quotes

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

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

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.

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

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.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

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

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

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

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

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

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.