Courage Quotes

"I would rather be assassinated than see this Union dissolved."

"Let us therefore brace ourselves up, and act as men."

"In literature, we find the courage to live lives we could never otherwise experience."

"Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people feel secure."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"I have learnt that courage was not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it."

"Fear grows in darkness; courage grows in the light."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier."

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"Timidity is a form of cowardice, and it is the duty of every person to be courageous."

"I have often been afraid, but I would not let fear prevent me from doing what I thought was right."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it."

"Courage is the quality which guarantees all other qualities."

"We shall never surrender."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Indifference is worse than oppression."

"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

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

"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight."

"Let us be frank about one thing: the only limits to our realization of tomorrow are our doubts of today."

"Confidence and courage are the only weapons needed to fight our battles."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"The most important step in solving a problem is finding the courage to face it."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"The greatest tragedy is not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."