Courage Quotes

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

Carol P. Christ

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.)

Christopher Hitchens

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

Elias Hicks

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Charles Peguy

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Rollo May

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Gerry Adams

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Elia Kazan

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Jose Carreras

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

Peter Fonda

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Mary Wesley

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels

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

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

Rick Perry

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

Jeff Flake