701 quotes
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy
President · American · 1917 – 1963
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
Clergyman · English · 1771 – 1845
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Virgil
Poet
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Jean Anouilh
Playwright · French · 1910 – 1987
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
Writer · American · 1888 – 1955
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Charles Lindbergh
Aviator · American · 1902 – 1974
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
Euripides
Poet · Greek
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Writer · American · 1809 – 1894
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
Artist · Dutch · 1853 – 1890
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley
Author · American · 1890 – 1957
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Oriana Fallaci
Journalist · Italian · b. 1929
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Poet · Roman
I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
Elia Kazan
Director · American · 1909 – 2003
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell
Poet · American · 1819 – 1891
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
Author · American · 1903 – 1977
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
Theologian · German · 1886 – 1965
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
Billy Graham
Clergyman · American · b. 1918
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Statesman · Roman
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt
President · American · 1858 – 1919
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Pierre Corneille
Dramatist · French · 1606 – 1684
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leader · French · 1769 – 1821
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Author · American
Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
Thomas Kempis
Writer · German
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
Geraldo Rivera
Journalist · American · b. 1943
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May
Psychologist · American · 1909 – 1994
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
Journalist · American · 1913 – 1983
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
Novelist · Spanish · 1547 – 1616
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
Aviator · American · 1898 – 1937
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Robert Anthony
Educator
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf
Author · British · 1882 – 1941
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1593
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Soldier · 1780 – 1831
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Lewis Mumford
Sociologist · American · 1895 – 1990
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
Leader · American
With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Dan Lipinski
Politician · American · b. 1966
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
Kenneth L. Pike
Sociologist · American · 1912 – 2000
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott
Psychologist · American · 1938 – 1996
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
Marion Berry
Politician · American · b. 1942
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Franklin P. Jones
Journalist · American
Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
Matthew Simpson
Clergyman · American · 1811 – 1884
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Moliere
Playwright · French · 1622 – 1673
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Saint · Spanish · 1515 – 1582
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
Wallis Simpson
Royalty · American · 1895 – 1986
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Jeremy Collier
Clergyman · English
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist · American · 1887 – 1986
