Courage Quotes

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

~ Maggie Kuhn

Fortune favours the bold.

~ Terence

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.

~ Anita Brookner

Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.

~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Fortune sides with him who dares.

~ Virgil

Chance favors the prepared mind.

~ Louis Pasteur

You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

~ James A. Michener

Get as much experience as you can so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.

~ Henry Fonda

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

~ Darrell Royal

Luck is the residue of design.

~ Branch Rickey

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.

~ Ovid

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Luck is being ready for the chance.

~ J. Frank Dobie

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

~ Joseph Joubert

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule and you will have very little bad luck.

~ Anonymous

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

~ Oprah Winfrey

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

~ Jan Wong

My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

~ O. Henry

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

~ John Ciardi

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

~ Gail Sheehy

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

~ Anaïs Nin

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

~ Samuel Butler

Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

~ Anonymous

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

~ Jean Anouilh

There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.

~ John Wainwright

Why not is a slogan for an interesting life.

~ Mason Cooley

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

~ Martin Luther

Many become brave when brought to bay.

~ Norwegian Proverb

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

~ George S. Patton

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

~ Thomas Fuller

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

~ Woody Allen

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

~ Tennessee Williams

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage both as a whole and separately in each country in each government in each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

~ Eddie Rickenbacker

One man with courage makes a majority.

~ Andrew Jackson