Courage Quotes

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.

Tony Randall

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Theodore Sturgeon

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Thomas Szasz

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Torquato Tasso

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Twyla Tharp

I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

Tadashi Yanai

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Vittorio Alfieri

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Vittorio Alfieri

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

Vanessa Paradis

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Virgil

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Virgil

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite sh...

Vikram Seth

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

William J. H. Boetcker

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

William Wells Brown

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

Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

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.

William Hurt