599 private quotes tagged courage

“The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” — Winston Churchill

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“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.” — Ronald Reagan

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“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” — Maya Angelou

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

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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” — Bruce Lee

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

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“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

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“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” — William Butler Yeats

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

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

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

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“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

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“Courage is grace under pressure.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.” — William Blake

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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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