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Quotes About Courage

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
~ Tennessee Williams
How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?
~ Sophie Scholl
Fortune befriends the bold.
~ John Dryden
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
~ Publilius Syrus
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.
~ Rudy Giuliani
Have the courage to act instead of react.
~ Unknown
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
~ George S. Patton
Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.
~ Gary Chapman
Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.
~ Catherine Doherty
We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
~ Louise Penny
Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.
~ Gino Bartali
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
~ Wendell Phillips
The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.
~ P. W. Botha
It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
~ Aristotle
Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.
~ Tommy Douglas
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
~ Agatha Christie