Courage Quotes

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence

Jean Anouilh

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacker

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle.

Martha Boaz

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.

Ayn Rand

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Alexander Berkman

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

Henry H. Tweedy

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

Nicholas Murray Butler

Our physical organs are animal forces, which will quite naturally obey a man who is prepared to command them. They are there to serve him, not to enslave him. But the ego is so lazy that it makes him quite glad to abdicate this power in return for the secret satisfaction of pitying his own sufferings, or attracting attention to his pathetic case. Most of our pathological conditions are aggravated by this unconfessed indulgence. The same applies to our personal dramas and daily worries; we should have the courage to admit that they feed largely on the pity of others, and on our own. In most cases, what would be left of them if we passed them over in total silence?

Isha De Lubicz

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

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

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle

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

Winston Churchill