Famous courage quotations

   Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
 ~ by Samuel Johnson (Thank you, Frank Lynch.)

   People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
 ~ by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
 ~ by John F. Kennedy

   Necessity does the work of courage.
 ~ by Nicholas Murray Butler

   Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
 ~ by John Wayne

   Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
 ~ by François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

   It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
 ~ by Aesop

   You can't test courage cautiously.
 ~ by Anne Dillard

   Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
 ~ by Diane de Poitiers

   To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
 ~ by Edward Weeks

   Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
 ~ by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
 ~ by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius

   Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
 ~ by Douglas Malloch

   It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
 ~ by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

   A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
 ~ by Arthur Koestler

   Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
 ~ by Robert Cody

   Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
 ~ by Dan Rather

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

   Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
 ~ by Winston Churchill

   There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
 ~ by John Wainwright

   Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
 ~ by Joseph Epstein

   Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
 ~ by G.K. Chesterton

   Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
 ~ by Kurt Goldstein



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