Courage Quotes and Sayings - Page 5
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
William Shakespeare
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Dolores Ibarruri
Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!
Georges Jacques Danton
Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice.
Irisa Hail
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles DuBois
Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
None but the Brave deserves the Fair.
John Dryden
If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.
Win Borden
The three-o’-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
Henry David Thoreau
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras
The camps had taught him that people who say nothing carry something within themselves.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Chase Smith
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Theodore H. White
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean; who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Raymond Chandler
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
Anonymous
Oliver Twist has asked for more.
Charles Dickens
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you inevitably get into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
John Foster Dulles
Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Arthur Koestler
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler
I’ll bell the cat.
Archibald Douglas
They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.
William Howard Russell
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
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