courage quotes

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

The 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!

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Courage is grace under pressure.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

He who is brave is free.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.