Courage Quotes

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.