Top 999 Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

The terrorists didn't think that Yazidi girls would have the courage to tell the world every detail of what they did to us. We defy them by not letting their crimes go unanswered.

I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

As long as you've got your courage of conviction, it works for you. I think that the same applies, too, even where you don't, because in today's world, financial resources are the least important. World has moved to the power of ideas.

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

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

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He has to use his brain and his courage. That's what always appealed to me.

In West Delhi I lived a very Punjabi way of life; I have always loved its gregariousness, courage, fun, drama and day-to-day joy of living and celebrating.

Ain't nobody ever had a jumpshot like mine, ain't nobody ever power moves like mine, ain't nobody ever tough defense like mine and ain't nobody ever had the courage to be a winner like me.

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.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.