Courage
Courage is the ability to confront fear or pain, or danger or uncertainty. There is both physical courage – the courage to face physical pain or danger – and moral courage, the courage to act in the correct way despite any outside pressures.
Please enjoy browsing through our collection of quotes about courage.
Quotes About Courage
James Bryant Conant – Behold the turtle …
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
~ James Bryant Conant
Julia Sorel – If you are never scared …
If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.
~ Julia Soul
Ambrose Redmoon – Courage is not the absence of fear …
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
William Faulkner – You cannot swim …
William Faulkner Quote You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose…
Andre Gide – Man cannot discover new oceans unless …
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ Andre Gide
Mignon McLaughlin – Courage can’t see around corners …
Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Miguel de Cervantes – He who loses wealth loses much …
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Mark Twain – Courage is resistance to fear …
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
~ Mark Twain
Arthur Koestler – If the creator had a purpose …
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
~ Arthur Koestler
Lao-Tzu – Being deeply love by …
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu
William G. T. Shedd – A ship is safe in harbor …
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
~ William G. T. Shedd
Coco Chanel – The most courageous act …
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
~ Coco Chanel
J. K. Rowling – It takes a great deal of bravery …
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
~ J. K. Rowling
Maya Angelou – Courage is the most important …
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
~ Maya Angelou
Napoleon Bonaparte – Courage isn’t having the strength …
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Winston Churchill – Courage is the first …
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
~ Winston Churchill
Mark Rutherford – When we are afraid …
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
~ Mark Rutherford
Ralph Waldo Emerson – It was a high counsel …
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, always do what you are afraid to do.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harper Lee – I wanted you to see …
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. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
~ Harper Lee
Vincent Van Gogh – What would life be …
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – It takes as much courage …
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh