Quotes
Quotes about Courage
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.]
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
You can't test courage cautiously.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
Courage is grace under pressure.
