Quotes about Courage

“Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.”

“The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.”

“I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.”

“When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.”

“I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.”

“Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.”

“In 1984, showing extraordinary courage, a group of Guatemalan wives, mothers and other relatives of disappeared people banded together to form the Mutual Support Group for the Appearance Alive of Our Relatives.”

“When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.”

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”

“Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.”

“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”

“What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.”

“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”

“Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.”

“We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.”

“The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.”

“I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.”

“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.”

“A superhero represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.”