“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”
CORRA HARRIS“It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.”
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL“One man with courage makes a majority.”
ANDREW JACKSON“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
ROBERT F. KENNEDY“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.”
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.”
DEAN KOONTZ“The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.”
D.H. LAWRENCE“The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.”
D.H. LAWRENCE“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point.”
C.S. LEWIS“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worth”
VINCE LOMBARDI“Courage is not the towering oak that see storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.”
ALICE MACKENZIE SWAIM“I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.”
NORMAN MAILER“Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.”
GEORGE C. MARSHALL“As for courage and will we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.”
ANDRE NORTON“Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.”
WENDELL PHILLIPS“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
THEODORE ROOSEVELT“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
CARL SANDBURG“Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannnot endure it.... Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.”
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”
LAO TZU“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
VINCENT VAN GOGH“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”
JOHN R. WOODEN“By hero, we tend to mean a heightened man who, more than other men, possesses qualities of courage, loyalty, resourcefulness, charisma, above all, selflessness. He is an example of right behavior; the sort of man who risks his life to protect his society's values, sacrificing his personal needs for those of the community.”
PAUL ZWEIG“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
ARISTOTLE“No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.”
ATHENÆUS“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.”
CONFUCIUS“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. ”
VICTOR HUGO“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“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ‘Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night’s lodging. ‘Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON“Courage is only the accumulation of small steps.”
GEORGE KONRAD“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ”
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE