Courage Quotes

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

~ Satchel Paige

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

~ John Dryden

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

~ G. K. Chesterton

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

~ Joseph Conrad

Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

~ Victoria

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself.

~ John F. Kennedy

To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

~ Comtesse Diane

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

~ Thomas Carlyle

Have the courage to act instead of react.

~ Earlene Larson Jenks

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

~ Marie Antoinette

Necessity does the work of courage.

~ George Eliot

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

~ Samuel Johnson

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.

~ John F. Kennedy

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

~ Jonathan Swift

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

~ Jean Dubuffet

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

~ Homer

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.

~ Mark Twain

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

~ Andri Gide

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

~ Cervantes

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

~ G. C. Lichtenberg

As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

~ Cervantes

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

~ Sara Jeannette Duncan

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage - fear that has said its prayers.

~ Dorothy Bernard

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

~ Winston Churchill

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

~ Seneca

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

~ William T. Sherman

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

~ C. S. Lewis

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

~ E. H. Chapin

Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

~ Bliss Carman

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

~ Martin Luther King

All men would be cowards if they durst.

~ John Wilmot

When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.

~ Steve Goodier

I shall be in Paris in two days. Well, all is finished. The waves ofhuman mediocrity rise to the sky and they will engulf the refuge whosedams I open. Ah! courage leaves me, my heart breaks! O Lord, pity theChristian who doubts, the sceptic who would believe, the convict oflife embarking alone in the night, under a sky no longer illumined bythe consoling beacons of ancient faith.

~ Joris-Karl Huysmans

I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.

~ Melika Dannese Lux

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

~ Ayn Rand

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

~ Rachele Baker