Courage Quotes

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

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.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

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

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.