Courage Quotes

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.

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.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

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.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

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.

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.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.