Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
- Howard Cosell
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
- Vittorio Alfieri
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
- John Bytheway
Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
- Kim Yuna
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
- E. M. Forster
What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity.
- Paul Keating
I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.
- Tim O'Brien
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
- Neal A. Maxwell
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
- Alice Walker
Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
- Adam Grant
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
- Antonin Scalia
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
- Anand Mahindra
Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.
- Karen Salmansohn
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
- James Freeman Clarke
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
- Lou Gehrig
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
- Regina Brett
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
- Aristotle
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
- Owen D. Young
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
- Jean Anouilh
There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
- David Letterman
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
- John Bunyan
'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
- Samuel E. Morison
It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.
- Ginnifer Goodwin
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Valor' is a word we don't commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But 'valor' connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.
- William Barr
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
- George Santayana
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
- Tom Brown, Jr.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
- Jean Paul
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.
- Willy Brandt
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
- Hillary Clinton
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
- Tara Brach
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.
- James Keller
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
- Pierre Corneille
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
- Benjamin Banneker
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
- Christopher Morley
Despair gives courage to a coward.
- Thomas Fuller
Political courage is not political suicide.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
- Thomas Hardy
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
- Ai Weiwei
Courage in danger is half the battle.
- Plautus
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
- William Congreve
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
- Adam Driver
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
- Daniel Ellsberg
Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
- Linda McCartney
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
- John W. Gardner
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
- Lewis Mumford
Terrorism is not a sign of courage. It means cowardice.
- Kay Kay Menon
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
- Brene Brown
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
- Charles Luckman
Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
- Halima Aden
Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.
- Thalia
Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization's ashes.
- Heidi Hammel
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
- Pam Brown
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
- Maya Angelou
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
- Oriana Fallaci
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
- Malala Yousafzai
A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
- Jacques Maritain
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
- Kenneth L. Pike
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
- James Thomson
Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'
- Sean Covey
I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.
- Sudha Murty
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
- Paul Tillich
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Thomas Merton
Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
- Paul Johnson
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don't have.
- Wayne Shorter
On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
- Patrick Lencioni
I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.
- Richard Hatch
Often times we don't have answers. We put it in the 'I don't understand' file so you are not subject to questioning God too much. Because God is good anyway. You just gotta keep it moving and pray for strength and courage to go forward.
- Rev. Run
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
- Robert Peel
Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.
- Meghan Markle
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
- Grace Paley
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
- Terri Clark
The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
- Townsend Harris
Being gifted needs courage.
- Georg Brandes
Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.
- John Eldredge
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
- Nicholas M. Butler
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
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
- Virginia Woolf
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
- Tadao Ando
As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.
- Susana Martinez
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
- Dorothea Lange
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
- Richard P. Feynman
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
- Charles Stanley
I think my greatest virtue is that I have the courage to take tough decisions. As for my greatest fault, I guess I should be a little tougher. The feedback I get always is that I am not as tough and demanding as I should be.
- Ajay Piramal
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
- Albert Camus
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
- Ronald Reagan