Courage Quotes

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

Michael D. Higgins

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Clay Aiken

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

George A. Sheehan

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Umberto Eco

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Zoe Saldana

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Ben Okri

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Robert Crumb

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Samuel Johnson

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Linda Ellerbee

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

Rand Paul

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

Bill Hunter

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Giacomo Casanova

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Plautus