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Quotes About Courage

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
~ Sarojini Naidu
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
~ Alexander the Great
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.
~ Indira Gandhi
Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
~ Maya Angelou
You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
~ John Lewis
All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
~ William Bradford
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
~ Frederick Douglass
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.
~ Tommy Douglas
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
~ Claude Monet
Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
~ Rosa Parks
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!
~ Joyce Meyer
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
~ Mark Rothko
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
~ John Vianney
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
~ Omar N. Bradley
The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop
~ KRS-One
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
~ Maya Angelou
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.
~ Bill Hybels
I have the courage to be mistaken.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.
~ Millicent Fawcett
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn