Quotes about Courage
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
— Victor Hugo
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
— Francis de Sales
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
— Ruth Gordon
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
— George Bernard Shaw
No one reaches a high position without daring.
— Publilius Syrus
Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.
— Anonymous
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
— Abraham Lincoln
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
— Helen Keller
If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.
— Oscar Wilde