100 Best Quotes For Courage

When you need inspiration to face your fears, remember that being courageous isn’t always easy. May best lion quotes will fill your heart and get through life’s inevitable struggles with courage.

• You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle
• Courage, my friends ’tis not too late to build a better world. Tommy Douglas
• Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. Juan Ruiz
• Every man of courage is a man of his word. Pierre Corneille
• I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines. Julie Doucet
• Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. Gerry Adams
• Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. Benjamin Banneker
• The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money. Marlon Brando
• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis
• If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults. Brian Baird
• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Harry S. Truman
• It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. John Ciardi
• Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. Plautus
• He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all. Miguel de Cervantes
• The criteria for serving one’s country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. Dianne Feinstein
• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Sockman, Ralph W.
• Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid
• Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. Louis D. Brandeis
• Necessity does the work of courage. Nicholas M. Butler
• Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. Jean Anouilh
• I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. George Bernard Shaw
• I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what’s important. George Michael
• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. Dale Carnegie
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain
• Anyone can support a team that is winning – it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage. Bart Starr
• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. Billy Graham
• But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that’s where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives. Michael Hutchence
• It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect. Emeli Sande
• I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. Paul Bremer
• Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. Michel de Montaigne
• Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Robert Louis Stevenson
• I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Paine, Thomas
• It requires more courage to suffer than to die. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. Sinclair Lewis
• Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. Theodore Roosevelt
• Courage easily finds its own eloquence. Plautus
• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Paul Tillich
• No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. Channing Pollock
• 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
• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. Charles Caleb Colton
• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. Dan Rather
• The weak in courage is strong in cunning. William Blake
• In our film profession you may have Gable’s looks, Tracy’s art, Marlene’s legs or Liz’s violet eyes, but they don’t mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. Frank Capra
• To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. Kong Fu Zi
• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. Samuel Johnson
• Optimism is the foundation of courage. Nicholas M. Butler
• With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. Jerry Costello
• When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way. Sam Raimi
• Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. Carol P. Christ
• In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. John Burns
• Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. Jenny Shipley
• Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. Angela Merkel
• In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. Daniel Dennett
• I have the courage of my convictions. Brigitte Bardot
• Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done. John Keegan
• I know that if I’d had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn’t have got anywhere. You don’t take exams for acting, you take your courage. Dame Edith Evans
• Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. John Stuart Mill
• All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. Erma Bombeck
• Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. Emily Greene Balch
• Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid…for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Deuteronomy
• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions. Omar Bongo
• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. Anais Nin
• Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. Tori Amos
• A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. Lewis Mumford
• Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are. George W. Bush
• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not. David Seabury
• Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? William Shakespeare
• America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Harry S. Truman
• The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. Alexandra Fuller
• You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don’t think you are gay. It’s enough to drive you crazy. Portia de Rossi
• The word courage – God, I love that word. Words are so important to me. Peter Fonda
• I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. Wallis Simpson
• Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. Jean Paul
• Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked – but it’s immensely important to find them in your closest relationships. Laura Linney
• Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. Jean Anouilh
• Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. Frances Rodman
• Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas Szasz
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
• President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president’s vision and courage. Ken Salazar
• Unjust. How many times I’ve used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don’t have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. Lillian Hellman
• I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. Maria Mitchell
• I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it’s not part of a sensible way of living. It’s a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it’s a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. Jane Campion
• The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage. Nikki Haley
• We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. Sarojini Naidu
• To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that. Saint Teresa of Avila
• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. Michel de Montaigne
• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that’s remarkably rare. Daniel Ellsberg
• More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. James Thomson
• I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed. John Slattery
• When somebody who makes movies for a living – either as an actor, writer, producer or director – lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film – a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it. John Carpenter
• Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Chesterton, G.K.
• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. Oriana Fallaci
• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. Margaret Mitchell
• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• I’ve decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class – a leader with the courage to do what’s right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight. Tammy Baldwin