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Quotes on COURAGE
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others." Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." Tacitus
Roman historian "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections." Thomas Paine
"Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success." Joshua 1:7-8
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage." Seneca
"Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing." Mickey Mantle
The Quality of Courage "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." Eddie Rickenbacker
World War I hero "The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances." Aristotle
"Fight hard when you are down; die harddetermine at least to doand you won't die at all." James H. West
"Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail." Henry David Thoreau
"One man with courage makes a majority." Andrew Jackson
"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate." Donald Trump
"Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood." Charles Swindoll
"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy." Admiral Horatio Nelson
"[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!" Admiral William "Bull" Halsey
"Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . ." Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet "Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity." Karl von Clausewitz
"One man with courage makes a majority." Andrew Jackson
"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Goethe
"Courage is being scared to deathbut saddling up anyway." John Wayne
"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." Attributed to Goethe
"I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened." Mark Twain
"In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval." Gerald R. Ford
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