Quotes about Courage

“Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.”

“Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.”

“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.”

“Only those who have the courage to take a penalty miss them.”

“Courage is the birthplace of confidence.”

“'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.”

“I used to think I was tough, but there's a difference between bravado and courage, and I only started to show courage when I began to get help. So now I make a point of telling people, 'Hey, it's a good thing to ask for help, not a bad thing.'”

“Courage is a kind of salvation.”

“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”

“Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.”

“He who is brave is free.”

“When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.”

“Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.”

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.”

“There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.”

“To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.”

“The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.”

“As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.”

“One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.”

“The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.”