Quotes on Have Courage

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

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

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

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.