Courage
Definition: The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery.
Number of Quotes: 24
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other
virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
Those who won our independence ... believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis Brandeis
No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see heaven's glories shine, and faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
Emily Brontë
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
G. K. Chesterton
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets ... If it had not
been for the men and women who, in the past, have had the moral courage to go to jail, we would still be in the jungles.
Eugene V. Debs
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the
man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
Opportunities are not offered; they must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and tenacity, determination and courage.
Indira Gandhi
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me
and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting
for, being brave for, risking everything for.... and the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make
of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.
Helen Keller
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The
brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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 must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Rumi
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
Bertrand Russell
I loathe people who keep dogs. They're cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg
Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind because that's what makes you different from everyone else.
Dave Thomas
But, the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is
before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this:
A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
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