Top 1200 Political Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.

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

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

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

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

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.

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

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

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

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

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

Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

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

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

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

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

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

In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were both said to be in irreversible decline.

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

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.

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

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

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

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

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

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

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

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

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

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

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

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

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

Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.

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

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.

When you truly have the courage to dream, you have the courage to act as well.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.