Quotes about Courage

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”

“The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.”

“A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.”

“Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?”

“Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.”

“You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.”

“Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.”

“Despair gives courage to a coward.”

“Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.”

“When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'”

“I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.”

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”

“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”

“In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.”

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

“So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.”

“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.”

“The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.”

“Have the courage to act instead of react.”

“It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.”