Quotes about Courage
They called me 'the angriest Negro in America.' I wouldn't deny that charge. I spoke exactly as I felt. 'I believe in anger. The Bible says there is a time for anger.
— Malcolm X
Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?
— Marcus Aurelius
This is not a misfortune but that to bear it like a brave man is good fortune.
— Marcus Aurelius
To be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility.
— Marcus Aurelius
Indeed, no one can thwart the purposes of your mind—for they can't be touched by fire, steel, tyranny, slander, or anything.
— Marcus Aurelius
Be the stone cliff against which the waves constantly break, standing firm against the fury of the sea.
— Marcus Aurelius
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
A man of faith is also full of courage
— Cicero
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
— Cicero
Nothing that is devoid of justice can be honorable. It was well said by Plato: "Not only is knowledge, when divorced from justice, to be termed subtlety rather than wisdom; but also the soul prompt to encounter danger, if moved thereto by self-interest, and not by the common good, should have the reputation of audacity rather than of courage.
— Cicero
I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
— Margaret Atwood
I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.
— Margaret Atwood