courage quotes

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

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.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

The 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.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Boldness be my friend.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I 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.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

One man with courage is a majority.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

Political courage is not political suicide.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.