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Short Courage Quotes

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational Courage Quotes

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mohandas Gandhi

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Quotes About Courage & Strength

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Ray Stannard Baker

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

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

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

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels

More Courage Quotes

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Winston Churchill

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

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

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

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

Winston Churchill

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Les Brown

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Sun Tzu

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Zora Neale Hurston

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Homer

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

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

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

Kathryn Bigelow

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

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Lord Chesterfield

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel de Montaigne

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

William Congreve

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

George Weinberg

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

James A. Garfield

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

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