Courage quotes

Antoinette Marie 1755-1793

(on the way to the guillotine)

Courage! Ihave show it for years; think you I shall lose  it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Balzac Honoré De 1799-1850

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have  had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy  and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

Bernard Dorothy

Courage - fear that has said its prayers.

Bonaparte Napoleon 1822-1891

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance on fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Bonaparte Napoleon 1822-1891

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the  morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an  unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events,  leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

Carlyle Thomas 1795-1881

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a  little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities  because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Colton Charles Caleb c. 1780-1832

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather  meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Conrad Joseph 1857-1924

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Dostoevsky Fedor 1821-1881

Crime and Punishment

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and  take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

Duncan Sara Jeannette

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

Eliot George 1819-1880

Necessity does the work of courage.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Fuller Thomas 1608 1661

We could be cowards, if we had courage enough.

Gay John 1685-1732

The Beggar's Opera

Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?

Gordon Adam Lindsay 1833-1870

Ye Wearie Wayfarer „Fytte 8"

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.

Hoffer Eric 1902-1983

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain,  whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Jackson Andrew 1767-1845

One man with courage makes a majority.

Jenks Earlene Larson

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Hoachim Lord 1831-1907

I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to  give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Jong Erica 1942-

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the  talent to the dark places where it leads.

Kennedy John F. 1917-1963

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle that  the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent  mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and  dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.

Kennedy Robert F. 1925-1968

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in  battle or great intelligence.

Leonardo Da Vinci 1852-1519

Just as courage imperils life, fear protecs it.

Lewis C.S. 1898-1963

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859

„A Jacobite's Epitaph"

To my true king I offered free from stain
Courage and faith; vain faith, and courage vain.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

... What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?

Morley Christopher 1890-1957

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Napoléon I (Bonaparte) 1769-1821

Le courage de l'improviste.

Spontaneous courage.

Napoléon I (Bonaparte) 1769-1821

Letter to Consul Cambacérès (of the Channel)

It is a mere ditch, and will be crossed as soon as  someone has the courage to attempt it.

Niebuhr Reinhold 1892-1971

O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed; courage to change what  should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Patton George S. 1885-1945

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Reade Charles 1814-1884

The Cloister and the Hearth

Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort!
Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!

Rickenbacker Eddie 1890-1973

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Scott Robert 1868-1912

„Message to the Public"

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and  our dead bodies must tell the tale.

Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862

Walden „Sounds"

The three-o'clock in the morning courage,  which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Trollope Anthony 1815-1882

The Bertrams

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Van Mildert Bishop

Want of friends argues either want of humility or of courage, or both.

Virgil 70-19 BC

Aeneid

Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.

Walpole Sir Hugh 1884-1941

Fortitude

„Tisn't life that matters! „Tis the courage you bring to it.

Washington George 1732-1799

General Orders

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the  courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy  leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

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