Courage Quotes

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

"Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric."

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

"A ready heart should have a ready tongue."

"Honor demands that we face our failures with dignity."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"To live without fighting is to exist without purpose."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots."

"The voice of one person can awaken a nation."

"To speak truth is an act of profound courage."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"To be courageous is not to be unafraid, but to act despite one's fear."

"Boldness, more boldness, always boldness!"

"We must be bold, always bold."

"Courage is contagious."

"I was a Queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."

"I have faced my fate with the composure of one who knows their innocence."

"One cannot escape fate, but one can face it with dignity."

"Audacity, audacity, always audacity."

"We must dare to be great."

"True courage is facing what frightens us."

"Progress requires sacrifice."

"The universe favors the bold."

"Silence is consent to injustice."

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

"I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire."

"As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind."

"A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures."

"Life is not meant to be easy; struggle strengthens us."