Quotes About Courage

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Do it big or stay in bed.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs.

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak, until the finish line is crossed.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

You will never do anything in this world without courage.