Courage quotes

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

One man with courage makes a majority.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.