Quotes About Courage

Courage is the right disposition toward fear.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.