99 Courage Quotes

1.  We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. Stokely Carmichael
2. The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. Terri Clark
3. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. William Boetcker
4. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson
5. In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it. Michael Servetus
6. It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Rollo May
7. What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers. Scott Walker
8. With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. Jerry Costello
9. Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. Jacqueline Bisset
10. Life is too short to worry about anything. Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish. 
11. Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? Marie Antoinette
12. Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. Ronald Reagan
13. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. Howard Cosell
14. This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. Euripides
15. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent Van Gogh
16. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Martin Luther King, Jr.
17. If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. Jeff Flake
18. To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. Kong Fu Zi
19. Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. James Allen
20. Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. Jean Baudrillard
21. Physical courage is a great test. Oriana Fallaci
22. Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. Whitney M. Young
23. You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. George Konrad
24. The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. Pam Brown
25. There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. Silvia Cartwright
26. I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights. Richard Hatch
27. 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. B. C. Forbes
28. People don't follow titles, they follow courage. William Wells Brown
29. Courage in danger is half the battle. Plautus
30. 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. William Hurt
31. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean. Ray Comfort
33. President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage. Ken Salazar
34. I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. George Bernard Shaw
35. A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me. Sun Myung Moon
36. 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. Aaron Hill
37. The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance. Bryan Miller
38. Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. William Butler Yeats
39. Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. Anna Akhmatova
40. Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. Billy Graham
41. Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe. Michael D. Higgins
42. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. Dan Rather
43. It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. Les Brown
44. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs
45. He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice. Michael Kinsley
46. 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. Chris Bell
47. Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Maya Angelou
48. Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. Archilochus
49. Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are. George W. Bush
50. A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. Jalal Talabani
51. So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. Zora Neale Hurston
52. Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. English Proverb
53. There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. Patrick Campbell
54. The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. Edward Gibbon
55. I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous. Aung San Suu Kyi
56. In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Oriana Fallaci
57. Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. Sydney Smith
58. The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. Dianne Feinstein
59. With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Dan Lipinski
60. The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. Daniel J. Boorstin
61. For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. Albert Claude
62. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.  Addison, Joseph
63. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. Plutarch
64. Courage is action, not talk. Jeff Rich
65. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin
66. I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. Bill Rancic
67. Courage is a kind of salvation. Plato
68. Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. Theodore Sturgeon
69. 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. John Burns
70. Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage. Gabriele D'Annunzio
71. Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. Alan Autry
72. Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. John W. Gardner
73. If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Doug Coupland
74. Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end. Bear Grylls
75. Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? William Shakespeare
76. True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is. Norman Schwarzkopf
77. A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. Les Brown
78. The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. Rene Cassin
79. 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. Pablo Casals
80. We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. Sarojini Naidu
81. Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. Napolean
82. Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other. MacArthur, Douglas
83. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength. Lao Tzu
84. The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. Christopher Morley
85. Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. Noel Coward
86. Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway
87. The best protection any woman can have... is courage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
88. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm
89. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr
90. I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. John F. Kerry
91. 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. Eamon de Valera
92. 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. Joseph Conrad
93. The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides
94. 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. Ricky Williams
95. War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. Alexander Berkman
96. One man with courage makes a majority. Jackson, Andrew
97. Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.  La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois
98. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. George S. Patton
99. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu