Quotes about Courage

“Have the courage of your desire.”

“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”

“There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.”

“How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.”

“The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.”

“To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.”

“A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.”

“I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.”

“What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.”

“Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.”

“For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.”

“In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.”

“As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.”

“Courage is action, not talk.”

“It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.”

“He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.”

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”

“The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.”

“Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability.”

“I had to find the courage to turn my life around.”

“Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.”