Courage Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Torquato Tasso

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Bill Hybels

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Graham Greene

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

Chris Bell

He who is brave is free.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Richard L. Evans

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

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Robert Anthony

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

George Crabbe

One man with courage makes a majority.

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

Townsend Harris

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Vittorio Alfieri

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Katherine Anne Porter

The more wit the less courage.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Barbara de Angelis

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

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Elmer Davis

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Sinclair Lewis

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henry Van Dyke

Life is to entered upon with courage.

Alexis de Tocqueville

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Margaret Mitchell

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.

Tim Holden

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

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Owen D. Young

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

John Buford

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

Jon Ronson

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

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

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Elmer Davis

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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

Joseph Chamberlain

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Philip Sidney

From caring comes courage.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Michael Kinsley

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Carter G. Woodson

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

David Mallet

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

John Milius

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

Robert Falcon Scott

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Sarojini Naidu

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Eddie Rickenbacker