Quotes about Courage

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

“Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.”

“Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.”

“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.”

“Red carpet is a little bit scary. It's not about expression. It's about taking a pretty picture in a really weird, awkward way, with so many people watching. It's a glamorous part of the job, but it requires its own kind of courage.”

“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”

“Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.”

“The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.”

“It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.”

“I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.”

“There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.”

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”

“For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.”

“Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.”

“Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.”

“When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.”

“For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.”

“The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.”

“Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.”

“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?”