Quotes for Courage

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

Simon Van Booy

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Franklin P. Jones

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Catherine the Great

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

Ralph W. Sockman

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

William Alexander

Courage makes victory possible.

Beto O'Rourke

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Thomas Aquinas

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

Peter Paul Rubens

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Sarojini Naidu

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Romeo LeBlanc

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Alexandre Vinet