courage Quotes (56)

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“Surmounted obstacles not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.”

“It is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.”

“They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.”

“Resignation is the timid sign of courage.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“The most drastic, and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.”

“Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.”

“If you want to launch big ships, you have to go where the water is deep.”

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

“Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.”

“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.”

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”

“There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live.”

“Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it.”

“The search for the truth is not for the fainthearted.”

“Fortune and love favor the brave.”

“Men don't die of threats.”

“A stout heart breaks bad luck.”

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

“Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.”

“He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.”

“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.”

“Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.”

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.”

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.”

“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.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

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

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”

“If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.”

“In order to do great things. You must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.”

“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.”

“Smiling is the best way to face every problem to crush every fear and to hide every pain.”

“He who sees the goal does not fear the obstacles.”

“Courage is the power that shines in times of crisis.”

“If it truly benefits you, do not fear the words of others.”

“He who is willing to die shall live, and he who clings to life shall perish.”

“Hope is a strong courage and a new will.”

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”

“The die is cast.”