Courage Quotes

236. Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary – it is a really attractive quality.

^{Alanis Morissette}

237. We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

^{Gloria Steinem}

238. Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

^{Christian Nestell Bovee}

239. Have the courage to act instead of react.

^{Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.}

240. Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

^{Jim Davis}

241. Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

^{Ricky Martin}

242. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

^{Bryant H. McGill}

243. Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? – Best Courage Quotes

^{Charles Lindbergh}

244. Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up… a lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.

^{Helen Hayes}

245. The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

^{Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus}

246. Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. – Best Courage Quotes

^{Thomas Merton}

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

^{Martha Stewart}

249. Despair gives courage to a coward. – Best Courage Quotes

^{Thomas Fuller}

250. Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

^{William Butler Yeats}

251. War is fear cloaked in courage.

^{William Westmoreland}

252. Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person.

^{Andrzej Duda}

253. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

^{J. D. Salinger}

254. Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It’s kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

^{Robert Crumb}

255. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation – through compassion and courage – about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

^{Mark Pryor}

257. Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. – Best Courage Quotes

^{Neal A. Maxwell}

258. The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

^{Thomas Aquinas}

259. The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

^{Joseph Conrad}

260. Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

^{William Alexander}

261. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

^{John Bunyan}

262. Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. – Best Courage Quotes

^{Robert Anthony}

263. The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.

^{Marlon Brando}

264. Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

^{Aaron Hill}

265. The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

^{Thomas Carlyle}

266. Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people. – Best Courage Quotes

^{Adam Driver}

270. I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

^{Oriana Fallaci}

273. ^{A superhero} represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.

^{Simu Liu}

274. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

^{Ruth Gordon}

275. Political courage is not political suicide. – Best Courage Quotes

^{Arnold Schwarzenegger}

276. But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

^{Erwin Rommel}

277. There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

^{David Letterman}

278. Courage in danger is half the battle.

^Plautus

279. I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what’s important.

^{George Michael}

281. Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.

^{Earl Wilson}

284. Freedom is a system based on courage. – Best Courage Quotes

^{Charles Peguy}

285. When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

^{Della Reese}

289. Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. – Best Courage Quotes

^{Gary Hamel}

290. It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to keep it.

^{Willy Brandt}

291. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.

^{Andre Malraux}

292. It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

^{Jerome Cady}

293. To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

^{Stephen Baker}

294. Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. – Best Courage Quotes

^{Leon Blum}

295. Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature’s, not honour’s law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

^Archilochus

296. Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

^{Brene Brown}

297. Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.

^{Anne Morrow Lindbergh}

298. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

^{Thomas Hardy}

Quotes About Courage 301 – 400

301. Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

^{Francois de La Rochefoucauld}