Courage Quotes (1731 Quotes)

He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.

Two things about him stand out hope and courage. He had all sorts of charges leveled at him during his campaigns, but he still maintained hope in politics and the electorate. He had the courage to take on a president or the CIA or even to go to Cuba to negotiate with Castro. You could make a case that it cost him his last election, but he stood for his principles and maintained his integrity. He knew there were more important things than getting elected.

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Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

She's got a story to tell and the courage to tell it.

I think we showed a lot of courage down the stretch.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike. It measures neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our wit nor our courage, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worth living. It can tell us everything about our country, except those things that make us proud to be a part of it.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

I told myself, "Take Courage, Friend --
That -- was a former time --
But we might learn to like the Heaven,
As well as our Old Home!

He knew how to make bombs. He made them and placed them. He blew up headquarters of the Nazi party once. When they communists took over, Central Committee of the Communist Party ordered him out of East Germany... The man moved to Britain, joined the Labor Party, and became an active socialist. Consider it. The man decided that killing was the only way, and I'd say it was a correct decision. I'd like to believe I myself would have had the courage to join him in it.

Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

Boldness can mask great fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

He had the courage to admit that a terrible wrong had been done to our country and people through the imposition of the system of apartheid,

... I repeat it, sir, we must fight An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us ... Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.... Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations and who will raise friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave ... ... Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

We know that meeting the cost of a college education can be difficult for the average household. But, it is a major financial burden for one-parent families. The brave Americans who sacrificed their lives in the battle against terrorism are heroes. We have an obligation to help their children reap the benefits of higher education as they become the future leaders of our nation.

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.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.

There may be disagreements on policy, but no one can disagree with the fact that we have extraordinarily brave, competent and dedicated individuals in the armed forces, serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

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

Gaiety that sweetens existence and makes it wholesome a sense of humor, a zest of enjoyment this is the accompaniment of courage which gives it a supreme value. Something of the high laughter of a Cyrano de Bergerac the world needs it.

Alysha is very deserving of the award that exemplifies youth activism, ethics and bravery. We look for people who are working on making changes in our society and working with people on solutions to animal welfare. This definitely applies to Alysha.

At Valor, we believe that the personal, social and academic growth of students is a responsibility shared by our students, their parents, the Valor staff, the school district and the community in which we live.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Courage changes things for the better . . . With courage you can stay withsomething long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three orfour times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers know that they are not alone.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

The American people should be so proud of the U.S. Navy. These are fine young people and they were brave, and what those who were injured wanted to do was to get back and support their shipmates,

It's long overdue, ... Mark Myers and Commissioner Irwin are very, very brave. For them to have read the law, understood the law and then demanded that the law be upheld is very admirable, and every Alaskan should take their hat off to them.

Courage is like a muscle strenghthened by its use.

He's feeling better, but I think he's just being brave, you know He's only 19.

There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit.

Dame Ermyntrude Loring, wife, and mother of warriors, was herself a formidable figure. Tall and gaunt, with hard craggy features and intolerant dark eyes, even her snow-white hair and stooping back could not entirely remove the sense of fear which she inspired in those around her. Her thoughts and memories went back to harsher times, and she looked upon the England around her as a degenerate and effeminate land which had fallen away for the old standard of knightly courtesy and valor.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

She is brave, insightful, smart, creative and fun to be with. I am impressed with her business talents.

We all recognize and appreciate the courage it takes. He is willing to take on elements of his party who are going to demagogue this.

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.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?