Courage Quotes

• Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
  • – Clare Boothe Luce

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

• The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.-
  • John F. Kennedy

• Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
  • – Frank Scully

• Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
  • – Friedrich Nietzsche

• It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
  • – Herodotus

• You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself.
  • – George Bernard Shaw

• Fortune helps the brave.
  • – Virgil

• Fortune befriends the bold.
  • – John Dryden

• Fortune favors the audacious.
  • – Erasmus

• With audacity one can undertake anything.
  • – Napoleon Bonaparte

• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.
  • – Miguel de Cervantes

• It isn’t for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
  • – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
  • – Julian Weber Gordon

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

• Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
  • – Plautus

• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
  • – Ralph W. Sockman

• One man with courage makes a majority.
  • – Andrew Jackson

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
  • – Anais Nin

• No great thing conies to any man unless he has courage.
  • – Cardinal James Gibbons

• Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air.
  • – John Quincy Adams

• Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
  • – Peter Drucker

• Knowledge without courage is sterile.
  • – Baltasar Gracian

• Be courageous! … I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.
  • – Thomas A. Edison

• Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
  • – General George S. Patton

• Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
  • – Dorothy Bernard

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
  • – Mark Twain

• We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
  • – Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
  • – Arthur Koestler

• Courage is being scared to death … and saddling up anyway.
  • – John Wayne

• Courage is grace under pressure.
  • – Ernest Hemingway

• To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
  • –Henri Matisse

• To see what is right and not do it, is the want of courage.
  • –Confucius

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
  • -Mark Twain

• To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
  • –Picabo Street

• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
  • –Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can’t practice any other virtue with consistency.
  • – Maya Angelou

• Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
  • -Winston Churchill

• Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
  • -Winston Churchill

• Fortune helps the brave.
  • -Virgil

• Last, but by no means least, courage—moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ; is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle–the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your; conscience on the other.
  • –Douglas MacArthur

• There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
  • –J. K. Rowling

• Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
  • –Walt Disney

• Better to die on your feet than on your knees.
  • -Dan Simmons

• Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
  • -Deborah Collins

• Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
  • -Maya Angelou

• Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
  • -Clare Boothe Luce

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