Courage Quotes

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.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

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.

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.

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.