Explore Quotes on Courage

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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.

Courage is grace under pressure.

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

All happiness depends on courage and work.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

What is to give light must endure burning.

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.