Courage Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

Linda McCartney

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

Grace Jones

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Elisabeth Rohm

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Ruth Gordon

Courage is always rewarded.

Kenny Loggins

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

Dean Smith

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Donald O'Connor

Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does.

Virginia Madsen

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

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Timothy Dalton

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

Lena Horne

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

Jeff Ament

Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

El Cordobes

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

George Sewell

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.

Peter Sarsgaard

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Pablo Casals

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

Harvey Penick

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

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

Barbara Cook

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

Karen Duffy

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

Terri Clark

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

Portia de Rossi

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

Evander Holyfield

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Abraham Lincoln

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. McGill

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mohandas Gandhi

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Edgar Allan Poe

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

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 approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

Dan Lipinski

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.