Top 1200 Real Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

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.

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

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

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

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

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The ups and downs of being a young creative are very real no matter where you are in terms of success, so I think having the courage to be consistent in what you believe in is super admirable.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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