Courage Quotes

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

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.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.