Courage Quotes

There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle, which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is “guts.”

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

I don’t know how I would have behaved in Germany under the Nazis if I had been a German. I don’t know – I can’t make guarantees there. I don’t think any of us can, as to our courage and so on. I don’t pretend to know. But there are situations in our own society […]

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

Courage is the thing; all goes if courage goes.

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

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

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.