Top 1200 Coward And Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

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

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

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

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom.

"Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man."

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.

It takes a lot of courage to stay in power, but I am pledging to you to have the courage to continue moving forward.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.

To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.

It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

A bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.