Courage Quotes

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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 F. Kennedy

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
John Wooden

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Seneca

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

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

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

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie