Courage and Bravery Quotes

"Have the courage to act instead of react."

"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."

"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."

"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."

"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

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

"When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed."

"My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation."

"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others."

"If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help."

"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency."

"Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character."

"The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities."

"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."

"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."

"Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams."

"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."

"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."

"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."

"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."

"The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories."

"The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them."

"Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them."

"We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine."

"There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake."

"Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth."

"The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness."

"I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision."

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."

"You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage."

"If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God."

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people."

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."

"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."

"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."

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

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

"We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!"

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."

"The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear."

"No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

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

"During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened."

"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."

"The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied."

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."

"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."