Quotes about Courage
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
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
— Ruth Gordon
I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
— Oscar Romero
I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.
— Mother Angelica
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
— Harriet Tubman
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.