- Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
- Thomas A Kempis on Courage
- 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 on Courage
- War is fear cloaked in courage.
- William Westmoreland on Courage
- War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
- Alexander Berkman on Courage
- Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
- Ron Fournier on Courage
- Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
- We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
- Jonathan Sacks on Courage
- We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
- Muammar Al-Gaddafi on Courage
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- William Hazlitt on Courage
- We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Courage
- We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.
- Guy Laliberte on Courage
- We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
- Stokely Carmichael on Courage
- We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
- Mary McLeod Bethune on Courage
- We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
- Valerie Jarrett on Courage
- We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
- Tom Brown, Jr. on Courage
- We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Courage
- We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
- Maxwell Maltz on Courage
- We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.
- Brian Sandoval on Courage
- 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 on Courage
- We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
- Barbara De Angelis on Courage
- We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
- Barry Lopez on Courage
- We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
- Sarojini Naidu on Courage
- We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
- We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- Gloria Steinem on Courage
- Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
- Paul Keating on Courage
- Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
- Evander Holyfield on Courage
- What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
- Scott Walker on Courage
- What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
- Eddie Marsan on Courage
- What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
- What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
- Logan P. Smith on Courage
- What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.
- Scott Walker on Courage
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Vincent Van Gogh on Courage
- Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
- William Samuel Johnson on Courage
- When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
- Charles Stanley on Courage
- When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
- Kirstie Alley on Courage
- When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.
- John Carpenter on Courage
- When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
- Eamon De Valera on Courage
- When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
- When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.
- Ricky Williams on Courage
- When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
- Della Reese on Courage
- Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Lane Allen on Courage
- While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
- Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
- William Shakespeare on Courage
- Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
- William Butler Yeats on Courage
- Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
- Robert Dale Owen on Courage
- With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
- Dan Lipinski on Courage
- With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
- Margaret Mitchell on Courage
- With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
- Jerry Costello on Courage
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