quotations about courage
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
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attributed, Women Know Everything!
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
DEBORAH COLLINS
This Is Not the Life I Ordered
Many people wrongly exclude fear from the definition of courage, believing that courage is the absence of fear. Every time such people feel afraid, they assume that they aren't courageous. The reality, though, is that courage is fearful. When we are acting courageously, we are, most typically, very afraid. But we don't allow the fear we're carrying to stop us. Instead, we press on. This is the signature feature of courage: to carry on despite being fearful. Fear, thus, is an essential element in the definition of courage. You can't be courageous unless you are afraid.
BILL TREASURER
Courage Goes to Work
'Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare. Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common; but the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon's mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Society and Solitude
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
MARY ANNE RADMACHER
attributed, Never Take No for an Answer: One Woman, One Life, and The Money Mystique
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOT
Janet's Repentance
Courage is being scared to death -- and saddling up anyway.
JOHN WAYNE
Reader's Digest, 1986
Courage in danger is half the battle.
PLAUTUS
Pseudolus
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
KARLE WILSON BAKER
Dreamers on Horseback
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Winston Churchill's Great Quotation Book: From Alamein to Zest for Life
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
MAYA ANGELOU
USA Today, Mar. 5, 1988
Walk on with courage and bravery. Go on working to improve humankind and establish the Path of Truth.
HAIDAKHAN BABAJI
The Teachings of Babaji
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Better to die on your feet than on your knees.
DAN SIMMONS
Olympos
Courage is that virtue which champions the cause of right.
CICERO
De Officiis
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Orthodoxy
This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
VICTORIA LINCOLN
Vogue, Oct. 1, 1952
Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
SENECA
Hercules Oetaeus
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Heart of the Matter
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You Learn by Living