Courage Quotes

Courage plays an important role in our lives especially the lives of successful people. Here are a few inspirational and motivational quotes about courage. Read them, remember them and quote them to others.

One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson


Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne


It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck


In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin


You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
 

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


My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou


To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore



Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
Samuel Johnson


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


Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein


All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney


Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton


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


A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero


We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Robert Green Ingersoll


War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini


Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Franklin P. Jones


The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de Montaigne


Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson


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, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.
Thomas S. Monson


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


There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Moliere


Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien


To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel


Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
William Hurt


A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Marvin Kitman