quotations about courage
Better to die on your feet than on your knees.
DAN SIMMONS
Olympos
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Courage is caution overcome.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Theology of an Evolutionist
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
J.M. BARRIE
speech, May 3, 1922
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
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains; some in desires, and some in fears; and some are cowards under the same conditions.
PLATO
Laches
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH
Beckett
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Heart of the Matter
Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.
CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT
If Life Is a Game
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
Courage Doesn't Always Roar
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,
By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone....
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
By which those great in war, are great in love.
The spring of all brave acts is seated here,
As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
GEORGE FARQUHAR
Love and a Bottle
Walk on with courage and bravery. Go on working to improve humankind and establish the Path of Truth.
HAIDAKHAN BABAJI
The Teachings of Babaji
Courage is not only common, but cosmopolitan. But such are the apparent contradictions of life, that this virtue, which so many seem to possess, all hold the highest. There is probably no man, however miserable, who would not writhe at being exposed a coward. Why should the common be precious? What is the explanation?
WINSTON CHURCHILL
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Courage ... oh yes! If only one had that ... then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSEN
Hedda Gabbler
He who is brave is free.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
'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
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
HENRY FORD
Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
Courage is that virtue which champions the cause of right.
CICERO
De Officiis