Courage Quotes

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

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

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

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.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.