599 private quotes tagged courage

“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”— Dale Carnegie

“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”— William Blackstone

“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”— Charles Lindbergh

“Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.”— Vittorio Alfieri

“Physical courage is a great test.”— Oriana Fallaci

“Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.”— Scott Hamilton

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”— Robert Green Ingersoll

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”— E. E. Cummings

“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.”— Maria Mitchell

“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.”— Hans Urs von Balthasar

“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.”— Robert Green Ingersoll

“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.”— Benito Mussolini

“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'”— Lady Gaga

“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.”— Samuel Johnson

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”— Albert Camus

“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”— Socrates

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”— Victor Hugo

“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”— William Shakespeare

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”— John F. Kennedy

“Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.”— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.”— Saint Francis de Sales

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”— C. S. Lewis

“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”— George Bernard Shaw