Courage Quotes - page 9

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. (Mary Wesley)
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove. View quote
Owen D. Young
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me. View quote
Peter Fonda
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. View quote
Robert Dale Owen
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. View quote
Robert Dale Owen
There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them. View quote
Tony Randall
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. View quote
William Hurt
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth? View quote
Buckminster Fuller
It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along. (Germaine Greer)
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. View quote
John McCain
This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity. View quote
Rollo May
It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings. View quote
Rollo May
Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself. View quote
Rollo May
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built. View quote
Rollo May
Vanity and narcissism - the compulsive need to be admired and praised - undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own. View quote
Rollo May
Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration. View quote
Rollo May
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words. View quote
Charles Sumner
My courage comes from my faith. I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am. (Leymah Gbowee)
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. View quote
Delmore Schwartz
I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. View quote
Hans Urs von Balthasar
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein