Top 100 Courage Is Quotes
#1. If courage is not there, if the possibility of things getting better is not there, listen a little harder.
Anne Lamott
#2. The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men.
Lynn G. Robbins
#3. Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
Hannah Arendt
#4. Courage is like the diamond,
very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.
Charles Caleb Colton
#5. Courage is easy, when the alternative is getting killed.
Justin Cronin
#6. Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision
Peter M. Senge
#8. Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.
Leonard Michaels
#9. Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#10. But I think the thing that takes
me the most courage is realizing that as many oceans as I
might cross, the stupid simple truth will always be on the
other side.
Ava Dellaira
#11. Doing it anyway" is really the only way to ensure that fear doesn't rob you of an opportunity. "Doing it anyway" is the essence of courage. Courage is the willingness to move in a direction in spite of the emotions and thoughts that bid you to do otherwise.
Andy Stanley
#12. Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder ... would we be better off with cowardice?
Joshua Fernandez
#13. To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#14. The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
Henri Matisse
#16. Fear believes - courage doubts. Fear falls upon the earth and prays - courage stands erect and thinks. Fear is barbarism - courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, in devils and in ghosts. Fear is religion, courage is science.
Dale McGowan
#17. Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives.
Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran
#18. Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Aristotle.
#19. Thus are the changes wrought in a man's life - that courage is treasured more than comfort and, in that choice, victory is gained.
Philip Gulley
#20. True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway
Victor Castelo
#21. Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.
Paulo Coelho
#22. Do you know what courage is? It's being afraid and doing it anyway.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#23. 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
#24. Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times ... Courageous action is humanity at its finest.
Robert Biswas-Diener
#25. Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe.
Lee Ellis
#26. You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin Disraeli
#27. Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
Rollo May
#28. Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
Ayelet Waldman
#29. On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail.
Jacob Clifford Moomaw
#32. The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
Dan Simmons
#33. In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.
Rajneesh
#34. True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
William Bennett
#35. Courage is living by the free will that one creates for themselves, not the life of monotony determined by another.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#36. I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.
Tim O'Brien
#39. Sometimes, courage is really just cowardice. Sometimes the bravest thing is to let go.
Miguel Syjuco
#40. Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.
Susan Sontag
#41. Courage is doing what is needed despite one's fear. Without the fear, it's merely . . . fearlessness." He
Alissa Johnson
#42. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. The truly noble heart sacrifices itself for others' good, to defend the weak and the good against evil. To a heart like this, a heart devoted to chivalry, courage is a matter of form.
J. Aaron Gruben
#44. The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.
Michael Josephson
#45. Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Aaron Hill
#46. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.
Charlton Heston
#47. You become courageous by doing courageous acts ... Courage is a habit.
Mary Daly
#49. Courage is a habit that is learned by acting courageously whenever the quality of courage is required.
Brian Tracy
#50. He says that courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure.
Ian Fleming
#51. Courage is not measured by
Marching bands and banners in the wind.
If you have not walked
The bloody lines and seen the faces,
You have no right to describe it so.
We die here to keep you safe at home,
And what we suffer
Pray you may never know.
Charles Todd
#52. Perhaps courage is simply this spur-of-the-moment acts when your head screams don't, but your body does it anyway.
A J Betts
#54. True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.' She
Robin Hobb
#55. Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.
Henry Van Dyke
#57. Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
Rollo May
#61. Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
Mitch Albom
#62. Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
Winston Churchill
#63. Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.
A J Betts
#64. Cowards and courage make for great conflict. Embodied within the statement above is the idea that imperfect heroes are the most satisfying because true courage is facing what you fear, trying even though the odds of failure are great. Internal
Debra Dixon
#65. That's why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you're doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that's the real reason you either do something or you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be.
Michael Oher
#66. It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
Claude Monet
#67. The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
Wayne Shorter
#69. Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice Mackenzie Swaim
#70. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
#72. Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
David McCullough
#73. Courage is a special kind of knowledge: 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
#74. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Tom Krause
#76. One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.
Ben Carson
#77. Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.
Samuel Smiles
#78. Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.
Kate Reed
#79. Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#80. I had to test your courage," the stranger said. "Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World." The boy
Paulo Coelho
#81. Have I not had enough time with my brave warrior to learn that she bends without breaking, that her courage is her strength and her grace the light sustaining her heart?
Lucy Varna
#82. Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear.
Roy Bennett
#83. Courage is the most important spiritual quality.
Paulo Coelho
#84. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow
Dan Rather
#85. Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.
Max Anders
#86. Courage is the ability to take bold action in spite of fear.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway.
Oprah Winfrey
#88. You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
George Konrad
#89. Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.
Janette Rallison
#90. Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.
Carolyn Hax
#91. I can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: Courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.
Katie J. Davis
#92. It is how we perceive ourselves that matters. True courage isn't about being brave. True beauty isn't about being beautiful. True courage is about being real. True beauty is about being happy.
R.K. Ryals
#93. Courage and confidence are practical necessities, that courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one's own consciousness.
Ayn Rand
#94. Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
Catherine Anderson
#96. Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
George Matthew Adams
#97. Courage is of the heart by derivation,
And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
Robert Frost
#98. Fear of failure is deceptive.
Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.
Courage is inceptive.
It's where success starts.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#99. Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do!
D.C. Akers
#100. True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
