Courage Quotes - Chapter 7

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henry Van Dyke

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Aaron Hill

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Douglas Coupland

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Maya Angelou

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Bart Starr

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Kenneth Branagh

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Jalal Talabani

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

George Matthew Adams

The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you're wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.

Tim Cook

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Margaret Heffernan

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mark Pryor

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

Shiv Nadar

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Lewis Mumford

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Publilius Syrus

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.

Sigourney Weaver

Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

Adam Grant

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

Robert E. Lee

As long as you've got your courage of conviction, it works for you. I think that the same applies, too, even where you don't, because in today's world, financial resources are the least important. World has moved to the power of ideas.

Mukesh Ambani

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Thomas Fuller

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Cameron

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

Peter Paul Rubens

The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

Robert Kennedy

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

Maya Angelou

Courage is always rewarded.

Kenny Loggins

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

Romola Garai

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

Ruta Sepetys

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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

We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

Walter Gropius

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Romeo LeBlanc

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

Taylor Swift

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

John Eldredge

I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, 'This is what it is. This is unfair; that's not cool.'

Hasan Minhaj

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

Charles Stanley

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

Hugh Grant

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

It takes courage to acknowledge uncertainty. And nothing is more attractive than demonstrating to another person that he or she is of value to you.

Tony Goldwyn

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

William Blackstone

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

William Hurt

Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Margaret Mitchell

Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

Junot Diaz

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Mary Daly

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

John Eldredge

Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that's all part of how I express my identity.

Jessica Mauboy

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Tony Randall

We've become the party that wants to appease everyone and no one. And I think the only way that the Democrats become viable again is if we have people who have moral clarity and courage to say what they need to say and fight for what they need to fight for.

Ilhan Omar

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

Charles Stanley

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

Edouard Manet

My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.

John C. Mather

It takes courage to come forward, and I don't want any victim of sexual harassment to think twice about doing so.

Kim Reynolds