Quotes about Courage

“I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.”

“True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.”

“I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.”

“Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?”

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”

“As Miss World, you are a face for beauty with a purpose. You can't just be beautiful. You have to have the zeal and courage to pursue the purpose.”

“No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.”

“When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.”

“Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.”

“Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.”

“What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.”

“It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.”

“It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.”

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.”

“Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.”

“You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.”

“John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to all Americans.”

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

“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”

“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.”