A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. KennedyAll of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma BombeckIt’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.
Robert KiyosakiFaced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
ConfuciusThe risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.
Kanye WestThe coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne man with courage is a majority.
Thomas JeffersonCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark TwainHistory shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
Lady GagaI know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.
Joe BidenA coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas JeffersonA hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Florence NightingaleYou can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘
Maya AngelouI think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
Maya AngelouWherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeThere are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald ReaganI am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the GreatDo the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.
Michelle ObamaYou must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.
Napoleon BonaparteOne must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van GoghI’m just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.
Stephen CurryHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIn order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.
Albert CamusHe who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. PattonIf we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius CiceroPower is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor DostoevskyCourage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TolkienThe future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Ronald ReaganThere is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya AngelouThe more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.
John MuirHeroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques RousseauHuman rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
Pope FrancisCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston ChurchillWomen have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice WalkerI see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!
Barack ObamaIt requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon BonaparteCourage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Carl von ClausewitzBetter to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph AddisonA lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.
Taylor SwiftWhenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund BurkeCowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LewisBravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace ThackerayMarch on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.
Khalil GibranAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinMy message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamMy great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya AngelouTo our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.
Fidel CastroThe great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
Friedrich NietzscheWisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
ConfuciusPrimate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.
Christopher HitchensIf ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Abraham LincolnI love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da VinciFreedom lies in being bold.
Robert FrostYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson