60 Famous Quotes About Courage
Life takes courage. Below you will find the collection of inspirational quotes about courage, courage sayings and courage words, collected over the years from a variety of sources. May these quotes inspire you.
- “We must have the courage to be happy.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
- “Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.” – Pearl S. Buck
- “That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.”
– Charles Caleb Colton - “When it comes to betting on yourself … you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.” – B. C. Forbes
- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis
- “The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.” – Confucius
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
- “A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.” – Euripides
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
- “A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Courage in danger is half the battle.” – Plautus
- “He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.” – Thomas Fuller
- “Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.” – William Hazlitt
- “In times of stress, be bold and valiant.” – Horace
- “Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” – Michel de Montaigne
- “Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires … courage.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases, she gives us greater courage.” – Johann von Goethe
- “The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, ‘O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'” – Michel de Montaigne
- “Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.” – Thomas Fuller
- “A man of courage is also full of faith.” – Cicero
- “Neither have they hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away.” – Samuel Butler
- “He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.” – Vauvenargues
- “Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.” – Anonymous
- “Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.” – Martin Luther
- “Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.” – Horace
- “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” – G. K. Chesterton
- “Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Knowledge without courage is sterile.” – Baltasar Gracian
- “There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.” – Helen Keller
- “Despair gives courage to a coward.” – Anonymous
- “Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.” – Cicero
- “There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live.” – John F. Kennedy
- “A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.” – Tennessee Williams
- “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
- “Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.” – Wendell Phillips
- “Necessity does the work of courage.” – George Eliot
- “A man of courage never wants weapons.” – Anonymous
- “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” – Jonathan Swift
- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Anonymous
- “Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
- “Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.” – Joseph Conrad
- “Chance usually favors the prudent man.” – Joseph Joubert
- “Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “A stout heart breaks bad luck.” – Miguel de Cervantes
