Courage Quotes

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

Marvin Olasky

The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

Mike Pence

Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.

Matt Salmon

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

Mira Sorvino
Courage quotes by Mark Twain, Fear quotes by Mark Twain, UberQuotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

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 batt...

Mary Wesley

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

Mo Yan

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas M. Butler

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Nicolas Berggruen

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Nick Clooney

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Noam Chomsky

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

Natalie Dormer

You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.

Natalie Dormer

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

Nancy Gibbs