Courage Quotes

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
-Albert Einstein

"What a new face courage puts on everything."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
-Mark Twain

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

"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

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

"Fortune favors the brave."
-Virgil

"The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness."
-Eric Sevareid

"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come."
-Anne Frank

"Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation."
-Oscar Wilde

"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Many would be cowards if they had courage enough."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."
-Corra Harris

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
-Epicurus

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
-Nelson Mandela

"Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado."
-Menander

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
-Thomas A. Edison

"If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well."
-Lawana Blackwell

"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."
-Ayn Rand

"I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it."
-Tupac Shakur

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Earhart

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear."
-Amelia Earhart