Quotes on Courage

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

One of the biggest ways we don't support ourselves is by not asking for support. Asking can take courage, but the reward is immense.

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

I learned to love who I am despite what anyone would say about or to me. This gave me the courage to really stand up to anyone or any obstacle in my life.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.