It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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.
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.
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.
Winston Churchill – Courage is the first …
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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.
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.
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.
Vincent Van Gogh – What would life be …
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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
Jules Ellinger – Success is never final and failure never fatal …
Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
~ Jules Ellinger