Courage Quotes

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

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.

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.

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

Courage in danger is half the battle.

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

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

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

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

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.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

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.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

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.

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

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

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

Physical courage is a great test.

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.