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Quotes About Courage

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
~ William Shakespeare
Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.
~ Dennis Rainey
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.
~ Brene Brown
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
~ Franz Kafka
Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face.
~ Derrick Bell
Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.
~ Ruth Gordon
It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
~ Henrik Ibsen
But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?
~ Susan Glaspell
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
~ James Forrestal
Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
All art requires courage.
~ Unknown
To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
~ John Milius
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage mounteth with occasion.
~ William Shakespeare
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
~ Martin Luther
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
~ Francois de Fenelon
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
~ Loretta Young
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
~ Ovid
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
~ James A. Michener
I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery