Courage Quotes

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

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.

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

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

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.

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

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

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

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

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.

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.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

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.

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

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

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

President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

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

Courage is action, not talk.

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