Quotes About Courage

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

With audacity one can undertake anything.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.

Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.

But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.

Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.

Educate every child for a good courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it's to feel the fear and face it anyway.

My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.