Courage Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

George S. Patton

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Stephen Leacock

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Catherine II

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

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

August Strindberg

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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.

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

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Reinhold Niebuhr

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Julius Caesar

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

Ida B. Wells

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Rollo May

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

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

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Andrew Johnson

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

Eliot Engel

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

J. D. Salinger

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

Newt Gingrich

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

James A. Michener

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Thomas Szasz

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Douglas MacArthur

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Dan Rather

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

John Buford

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

Titus Livius

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Arthur Koestler

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Paul Tillich

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Leo Rosten

Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.

Brad Henry

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Robert Dale Owen

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Saint Francis de Sales

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.

Bob Taft

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James Freeman Clarke