Sayings about Courage
Who has no courage must have legs. ~ Italian Proverb
When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage. ~ Hebrew Proverb
There are three friends in this world: courage, sense, and insight. ~ African Proverb
The fox will catch you with cunning, and the wolf with courage. ~ Albanian Proverbs
Some have been thought brave because they didn’t have the courage to run away. ~ Traditional Proverb
One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die. ~ Italian Proverbs
In the face of love and death, courage is useless. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape. ~ Azerbaijani Proverbs
Courage is often caused by fear. ~ French Proverb
Courage is a kingdom without a crown. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Courage cannot be bought at the inn. ~ Corsican Proverbs
An army is driven back by courage and not by insults, however many. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs
Alertness and courage are life’s shield. ~ Philippine Proverbs
Quotations about Courage
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~ Dorothy Bernard
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~ David Ben-Gurion
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. ~ Nigel Dennis
It takes courage to live — courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears. ~ Jerome P. Fleishman
A man of courage is also full of faith. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Courage is facing your fears. Stupidity is fearing nothing. ~ Todd Bellemare
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age. ~ Pierre Corneille
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well. ~ James V. Forrestal
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.~ Les Brown
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. ~ Jean Anouilh
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear. ~ Umberto Eco
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
The more wit the less courage. ~ Thomas Fuller
Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. ~ Jules Ellinger
Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn’t do. ~ Richard L. Evans
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend. ~ Winston Churchill
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~ Robert Cody
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ~ John Christian Bovee
True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them. ~ Jean Anouilh
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. ~ Alonzo Newton Benn
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. ~ Barbara De Angelis
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ~ Erma Bombeck
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.~ Mary Daly
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking…. Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor. ~ Ralph Bunche
Courage is the lovely virtue — the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children. ~ James M. Barrie
The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior. ~ D.A. Battista
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. ~ Richard L. Evans
On many of the great issues of our time, men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage. ~ William Benton
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Courage follows action. ~ Mack R. Douglas
Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards. ~ Preston Bradley
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.~ Jeremy Collier
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. ~ Dale Carnegie
Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy. ~ Eugene E. Brussell
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. ~ James M. Barrie
True courage consists not in flying from the storms of life, but in braving and steering through them with prudence. ~ Hannah Webster Faster
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. ~ Joseph Conrad
Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward. ~ Thomas A. Edison
Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ~ Winston Churchill
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence. ~ Francois de Salignac Fenelon
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. ~ Vittorio
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~ Mary Byrant
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ~ James Allen
Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ~ Walt Disney
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. ~ Amelia Earhart