Quotes About Courage

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

….it was a brave man's fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . .

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?

Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!

We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

Have the courage of your desire.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.