Quotes About Courage

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.

You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career.

Leadership is a choice one makes.

Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

Leadership is about creating new realities.

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.