Quotes about courage
courage virtue
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue. Walter Scott
courage treason
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
courage rocks firm
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
courage impossible-things possible-and-impossible
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
courage twilight victory
Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat. Winston Churchill
courage men order
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
courage moving eye
Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.
courage virtue loses
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
courage time not-giving-up
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
courage virtue depends
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
courage two heroism
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields. William Manchester
courage thinking long
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
courage heart bravery
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. Rudyard Kipling
courage honesty integrity
Have the courage to face the truth W. Clement Stone
courage coward earth
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. W. E. B. Du Bois
courage reality nerves
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions. Zora Neale Hurston
courage two enemy
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his! William Halsey
courage mean thinking
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. Virginia Woolf
courage sometimes offers
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. Wallis Simpson
courage opportunity favors
Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
courage sleep names
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie
courage nine thirds
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. Joseph Epstein
courage downhearted neighbour
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. Joseph Chamberlain
courage greatness practice
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Ralph Waldo Emerson
courage envy brave
Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
courage men animal
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.
courage soldier
Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.
courage ideals
Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.
courage inspiration genius
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
courage faces new-faces
What a new face courage puts on everything!
courage men thinking
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
courage past opportunity
We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world. Laurie Anderson
courage fighting may
I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may. Therese of Lisieux