Courage Quotes

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.î
Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is the gateway in the sense that you must first learn to face down your fears, even as they still appear real to you.

No one grows up and wants to be a cop killer. It was against everything Ive ever was. As a young police explorer I found my calling in life. But, As a young police officer I found that the violent suspects on the street are not the only people you have to watch.

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

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is the dividing line between weakness and strength of character.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didnt need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. Its in my DNA.

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen

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

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

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

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.

By courage I mean the ability to face down those imaginary fears and reclaim the far more powerful life that you've denied yourself.

True courage is more a matter of intellect than of feeling.

Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them.

Courage is a learned mental skill that you must condition, just as weight training strengthens your muscles.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they are have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.







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