Quotes about Courage

“To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.”

“I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.”

“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.”

“If you are fearful, choose courage. If you frequently procrastinate, choose to take action now. If you have always waited for others to lead, use your own initiative.”

“Part of courage is simple consistency.”

“The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.”

“My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'”

“I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.”

“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

“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.”

“I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.”

“War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.”

“But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.”

“Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.”

“One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.”

“Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.”

“My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.”

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.”

“I would kiss you, had I the courage.”