Courage Quotes

"The advancement of science requires courage to question tradition."

"Courage is the willingness to be wrong in pursuit of truth."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."

"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to appraise and reappraise our assumptions."

"The experienced soul knows that to be alive is to have battles."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"Courage is the conquest of fear through understanding."

"Fear is the last refuge of cowardice."

"They have nothing to lose but their chains."

"A revolution is necessary, not because it is impossible to live without it, but because it is the only honorable solution."

"Courage is the most important of the virtues because upon it, all others depend."

"Courage is required not to dominate but to serve humbly."

"Courage consists in pursuing what reason demands despite fear."

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

"The time for small measures has passed."

"Courage is not fearlessness but action taken in the face of fear."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

"If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally at stake, then I see no meaning in it."

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins."

"A man may be in a state of panic and think he is courageous."

"Commitment is health; indecision is sickness."

"I would rather be a dog and bay at the moon than such a Roman."

"The world belongs to those who dare to seize it with both hands."

"Courage is required to abandon comfortable illusions for difficult truths."

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."

"In this age the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service."

"The higher faculties of the human mind are called into full activity only by adversity."