Quotes about Courage
Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
— Samuel Johnson
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
— Helen Keller
Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
— Joseph Addison
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.
— Livy