Quotes About Courage

James Baldwin—the man who is, for my money, the greatest writer of the twentieth century—said: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I was feeling so lost and depressed, but now, okay … I am a fighter. I feel good. You come out of your corner crying, and you start to fight." She blew her smoke away from me, into the air. "It changes you," she said. "You feel strong then.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same colour.

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen.

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings.

Show me the man who has the courage to hide his ill-humour, who bears the whole burden himself, without disturbing the peace of those around him. No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders. We see people happy, whom we have not made so, and cannot endure the sight.