Courage Quotes

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

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle, which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is “guts.”

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

I don’t know how I would have behaved in Germany under the Nazis if I had been a German. I don’t know – I can’t make guarantees there. I don’t think any of us can, as to our courage and so on. I don’t pretend to know. But there are situations in our own society […]

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

Courage is the thing; all goes if courage goes.