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Quotes About Courage

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.
~ James Goldsmith
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
~ Alistair Cooke
Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.
~ Guy Claxton
To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine.
~ Debbie Ford
Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.
~ Brene Brown
The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.
~ Charles E. McKenzie
Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.
~ Orrin Woodward
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.
~ Alain-René Lesage
Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).
~ H. P. Blavatsky
True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.
~ Debbie Ford
Courage is the goal of cowards.
~ Alan Watts
Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
~ Frank Capra
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'
~ Ronald Reagan
Despair gives courage to a coward.
~ Anonymous
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
~ Penelope Leach
Fortune helps the brave.
~ Virgil
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
~ Alexander Berkman
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
~ Stanislaus
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
~ Plautus
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
~ Augustus Hare
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
~ Jeremy Collier