Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

courage

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. 20 views from George S. Patton

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. 25 quotes from C. S. Lewis

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. 98 views from Mark Twain

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. 74 thoughts from Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. 74 more quotes from Winston Churchill

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. 98 more sayings from Mark Twain

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 22 quotes from Andre Gide

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. 11 wisdom & wit from Bruce Lee

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

The best protection any woman can have... is courage. 9 quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. 52 more quotes from Albert Camus

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things. 4 quotes from Jacques Maritain

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. 2 more thoughts from Erwin Rommel

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? 2 sayings from Marie Antoinette

Genius is talent set on fire by courage. 11 views from Henry Van Dyke

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. 39 thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. 21 thoughts from Dale Carnegie

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. 2 quotes from John Bunyan

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. 14 quotes from Wendell Phillips

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. 3 more quotes from Benjamin Banneker

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. 3 quotes from George A. Sheehan

The weak in courage is strong in cunning. 32 quotes from William Blake

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. 20 quotes from George S. Patton

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. 12 wisdom & wit from James Allen

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. 12 quotes from James Allen

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. 4 more quotes from Margaret Mitchell

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. 23 thoughts from Walt Disney

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. 75 views from Benjamin Disraeli

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. 10 more sayings from Marlene Dietrich

Creativity takes courage. 7 quotes from Henri Matisse

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide. 2 quotes from Andrew Johnson

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. 11 quotes from Joseph Stalin

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. 2 more quotes from Delmore Schwartz

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. 46 thoughts from George Santayana

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. 58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

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. 14 other thoughts from Joseph Conrad

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is found in unlikely places. 5 quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. 96 more views from Benjamin Franklin

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself. 14 more sayings from Loretta Young

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. 41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause. 17 sayings from Plutarch

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. 2 quotes from H. G. Bohn

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. 17 thoughts from Plutarch

Despair gives courage to a coward. 45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. 26 thoughts from E. M. Forster

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. 14 quotes from Loretta Young

Freedom is a system based on courage. 4 quotes from Charles Peguy

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. 3 other quotes from August Strindberg

I would kiss you, had I the courage. 3 quotes from Edouard Manet

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. 12 quotes from Thomas Merton

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. 3 more quotes from Vittorio Alfieri

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. 3 other quotes from Vittorio Alfieri

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. 12 quotes from Zora Neale Hurston

The more wit the less courage. 45 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. 20 more quotes from Thomas Aquinas

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. 15 wisdom & wit from Moliere

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. 25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. 10 thoughts from William Congreve

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back. 12 other views from Thomas a Kempis

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. 4 other quotes from William J. H. Boetcker

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. 20 other quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 21 sayings from Anais Nin

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. 33 other thoughts from Erma Bombeck

Being gifted needs courage. 3 more sayings from Georg Brandes

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? 6 more quotes from Charles Lindbergh

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. 33 quotes from Erma Bombeck

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. 4 other quotes from James A. Michener

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. 6 wisdom & wit from Sinclair Lewis

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. 2 sayings from Van Wyck Brooks

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. 32 more thoughts from Michel de Montaigne

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. 19 views from Alfred North Whitehead

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. 9 thoughts from John Steinbeck

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. 32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. 16 views from Erich Fromm

One man with courage makes a majority. 9 wisdom & wit from Andrew Jackson

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? 23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. 6 quotes from Earl Nightingale

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. 18 quotes from Jean Paul

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. 11 other views from Clare Boothe Luce

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. 3 thoughts from Herbert Kaufman

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. 4 quotes from Torquato Tasso

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. 3 more thoughts from Richard L. Evans

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. 4 more quotes from Channing Pollock

Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. 6 quotes from Rollo May

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. 11 thoughts from Charlie Chaplin

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. 4 more views from Giacomo Casanova

One man with courage is a majority. 70 other views from Thomas Jefferson

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? 81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. 4 wisdom & wit from James Freeman Clarke

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. 6 other quotes from Leo Rosten

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. 8 other sayings from Hosea Ballou

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. 27 other wisdom & wit from Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity does the work of courage. 4 thoughts from Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. 4 more thoughts from Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is the foundation of courage. 4 more views from Nicholas M. Butler

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. 14 other views from Edward Gibbon

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. 3 more sayings from Carl Friedrich Gauss

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. 6 other wisdom & wit from Rollo May

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. 38 sayings from William Hazlitt

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. 26 other sayings from Harry S. Truman

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. 4 quotes from John Wayne

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. 46 more quotes from John F. Kennedy

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster. 6 sayings from Catherine the Great

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. 2 other views from David Viscott

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. 15 views from Christopher Morley

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. 21 more thoughts from Mignon McLaughlin

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results. 4 thoughts from Kenneth L. Pike

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. 2 more thoughts from Anna Akhmatova

Every man of courage is a man of his word. 15 other views from Pierre Corneille

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. 7 other quotes from Sydney Smith

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. 53 other quotes from Marilyn Monroe

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. 15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. 14 thoughts from Jean Anouilh

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. 14 quotes from Jean Anouilh

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. 14 wisdom & wit from Thomas Hardy

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. 21 wisdom & wit from Mignon McLaughlin

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. 14 views from Jean Anouilh

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. 8 wisdom & wit from Stokely Carmichael

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. 28 other thoughts from William Butler Yeats

Courage is grace under pressure. 35 views from Ernest Hemingway

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. 10 thoughts from Hermann Hesse

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. 7 sayings from John Quincy Adams

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. 115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

Life is to be entered upon with courage. 19 sayings from Alexis de Tocqueville

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. 50 other quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. 11 sayings from Paul Tillich

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. 16 other sayings from Coco Chanel

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. 50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. 11 more thoughts from Paul Tillich

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. 11 other thoughts from Paul Tillich

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue. 50 more quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. 63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. 4 wisdom & wit from Arthur Koestler

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. 63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all. 21 more wisdom & wit from Miguel de Cervantes

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. 5 quotes from James Thomson

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. 90 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. 24 other thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. 4 sayings from Jeremy Collier

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. 13 wisdom & wit from e. e. cummings

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. 30 other views from Eleanor Roosevelt

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. 8 quotes from Lewis Mumford

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. 2 quotes from David Ben-Gurion

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. 2 wisdom & wit from David Ben-Gurion

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. 36 more thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. 4 views from Jonas Salk

I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living. 6 more views from Georg Buchner

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. 36 thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. 4 thoughts from Jonas Salk

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. 4 other wisdom & wit from William Samuel Johnson