Quotes about courage
courage queens bravery
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. Queen Elizabeth II
courage soul triumph
Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius. Madame de Stael
courage brave excess
Everyone became brave from excess of terror. Gustave Flaubert
courage men tablets
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived. Gilbert K. Chesterton
courage school boys
I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him. Gilbert K. Chesterton
courage morning flower
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. Gilbert K. Chesterton
courage school law
It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. Gilbert K. Chesterton
courage community soldier
The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines. Gilbert K. Chesterton
courage art real
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. Gilbert K. Chesterton
courage inches get-away
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
courage men order
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
courage whistling being-afraid
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. John Dryden
courage military sacrifice
Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. John M. McHugh
courage fear prayer
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway. Joyce Meyer
courage cheer-up army
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad
courage good-life angel
Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life. Kate Reed
courage bravery taught
Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway. Laurell K. Hamilton
courage honesty integrity
Integrity is the core of our character. L. Lionel Kendrick
courage men benefits
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. John Kenneth Galbraith
courage real believe
Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody. Justin Cronin
courage men sight
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. Julius Caesar
courage betrayal kissing
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword Oscar Wilde
courage anxiety doubt
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. Paul Tillich
courage worry people
If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules. John Sculley
courage conquer all-things
Courage conquers all things. Ovid
courage light fit
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light. Ovid
courage opposites done
From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite. Paul Newman
courage character men
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. Mary Wollstonecraft
courage army retreat
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. Joseph Stalin
courage giving hatred
Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other. Nhat Hanh
courage freedom opportunity
If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world. Noam Chomsky
courage people brain
Some people have more guts than brains. John Grisham
courage tyrants virtue
But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant. Mary Renault