Courage Quotes and Sayings

Posted by Brian

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

A man of courage never wants weapons.
- Author Unknown

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
- Oscar Wilde

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
- Aristotle

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned.  When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
- Marvin Kitman

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain

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

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
- Lauren Raffo

Our thought cures courage.
- Jareb Teague

You can’t test courage cautiously.
- Anne Dillard

Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
- Robert Cody

Coward One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
- Ambrose Bierce

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
- Diane de Poitiers

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- Plato

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
- W. Clement Stone

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
- Maya Angelou

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
- Kurt Goldstein

One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
- Anais Nin

Courage is a kind of salvation.
- Plato


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