Famous Quotes About Courage

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. 

Winston Churchill

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

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.  

C.S. Lewis

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. 

 Alfred North Whitehead

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.  

Henry S. Haskins

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. 

David Ben-Gurion

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.  It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.  

G.K. Chesterton

Courage is nine-tenths context.  What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.  

Joseph Epstein

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.  

Jean Paul Richter

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. 

Diane de Poitiers

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. 

John F. Kennedy

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing.  Bravely face whatever the gods offer.  Morihei Ueshiba

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.  

Harper Lee

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  

Ambrose Redmoon

Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.  

Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.  

Samuel Johnson 

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

Mark Twain