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Quotes About Courage

Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.
~ Nikki Rosen
If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.
~ Unknown
Many become brave when brought to bag.
~ Norwegian proverb
Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
~ John Dryden
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.
~ Joseph Conrad
Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
~ Victoria, Queen of England
To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
~ Comtesse Diane
When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.
~ Jewish proverb
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
~ Marie Antoinette
I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.
~ Unknown
At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
~ Unknown
We would be cowards if we had courage enough.
~ Thomas Fuller
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
~ Thomas Fuller
Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~ Unknown
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
~ Henry S. Haskins
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
~ Cervantes
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
~ Cervantes
It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.
~ Jerome P. Fleishman
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
~ Joseph Addison
Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.
~ Frances Rodman
Courage - fear that has said its prayers.
~ Unknown