Quotes on Courage

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Another word for creativity is courage.

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

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.