Courage Quotes and Sayings


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

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Kurt Goldstein

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Oscar Wilde

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop

Because of my title, I was the first to enter here. I shall be the last to go out.
Duchesse d’Alencon

Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln

The Red Badge of Courage.
Stephen Crane

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richter

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz

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

Courage is a kind of salvation.
Plato

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Reggie White

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

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

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde

To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmond

I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
William Shakespeare

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible.
Dale Carnegie

Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.
Irisa Hail

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one”
Bertrand Russell

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon

The key to change… is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash

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

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