Courage Quotes

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

Carly Fiorina

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Les Brown

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

Brian Baird

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

Ron Fournier

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas M. Butler

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

Geraldine Brooks

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

John Stuart Mill

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

Mira Sorvino

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

George Crabbe

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardner

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Paul Keating

It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan P. Smith