Courage Sayings & Quotes
These courage sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. - Oscar Wilde
If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery. - David Hume
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. - Maxwell Maltz
To live we must conquer incessantly; we must have the courage to be happy. - Henri Frederic Amiel
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. - Ayn Rand
A very popular error-having the courage of one's convictions. It is rather a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Despair gives courage to a coward. - Thomas Fuller
Perhaps the word for the feeling I mean is serenity, a high acceptance, a recognition that Heracleitus's doctrine of eternal flow is a great truth, and while we may not, in ourselves, find the moment when the one element changes into the other, that moment will come and the consciousness of its inevitability may give us courage in adversity, and balance in good fortune. - Robertson Davies
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - Edward E. Cummings
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need. - Francois De Salignac De La Mothe Fenelon
We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance. - Socrates
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on. - Helen Hayes
True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them. - Jean Anouilh Ardele