Courage Quotes

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.

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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking.... Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.

Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.

It is brave to be involved, to be fearful is to be unresolved.

Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

I like the man who faces what he must, With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.