599 private quotes tagged courage

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.” — Ronald Reagan

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“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.” — Maya Angelou

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“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” — William Shakespeare

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“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” — Bruce Lee

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“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” — John F. Kennedy

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“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.” — Saint Francis de Sales

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Courage is grace under pressure.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“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

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“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.” — Socrates

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“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.” — William Blake

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“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“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

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“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“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

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“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” — Winston Churchill

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