quotations about courage
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
DAN SIMMONS
Endymion
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
DEBORAH COLLINS
This Is Not the Life I Ordered
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"Courage,", Counsels by the Way
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
KARLE WILSON BAKER
Dreamers on Horseback
Courage in danger is half the battle.
PLAUTUS
Pseudolus
Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
ROBERT FROST
"For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration"
Everyone became brave from excess of terror.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Salammbo
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
MAYA ANGELOU
USA Today, Mar. 5, 1988
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
'Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare. Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common; but the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon's mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Society and Solitude
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Winston Churchill's Great Quotation Book: From Alamein to Zest for Life
I can sense it
Something important
Is about to happen
It's coming up
It takes courage to enjoy it
The hardcore and the gentle
BJÖRK
"Big Time Sensuality"
Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.
CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT
If Life Is a Game
'Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.
JOHN ARMSTRONG
The Art of Preserving Health
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Better to die on your feet than on your knees.
DAN SIMMONS
Olympos
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You Learn by Living
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
ERIC ROTH
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Courage is being scared to death -- and saddling up anyway.
JOHN WAYNE
Reader's Digest, 1986