Courage Quotes

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Indira Gandhi

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
Titus

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Just go up to somebody on the street and say "You're it!" and then run away.
Ellen DeGeneres

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
Herodotus

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
Elizabeth Taylor

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
Jimmy Page

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Marlene Dietrich

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.
Denis Leary

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Marcus Garvey

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Tecumseh

Thought the sun is gone, I have a light.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.
Saddam Hussein

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.
Saddam Hussein

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

You can't test courage cautiously.
Annie Dillard

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.