Courage and Bravery Quotes

"The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility."

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle."

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

"We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."

"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't."

"Being a leader means that you're going to have to make difficult calls. You have to have the courage to do what's right, even if it's not popular."

"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

"Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?"

"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."

"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."

"There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies."

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

"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."

"I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it."

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."

"We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out."

"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."

"The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people."

"We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius."

"The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind."

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit."

"Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different."

"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."

"I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution."

"If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas - not run away from them or try and silence them."

"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."

"Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met."

"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."

"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."

"He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!"

"There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart."

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

"If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world."

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

"Genius is talent set on fire by courage."

"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 persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."

"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

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

"Courage in danger is half the battle."

"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."