Courage quotes

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.