Quotes About Courage

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus Going on before.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge, we must settle things by the sword.

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow, and of the man who leads, that gains the victory.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Fortune favors the audacious.

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.