1. The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. - Jim Hightower
2. Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward. - Tim Kennedy
3. The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. - Thomas Aquinas
4. He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. - Samuel Johnson
5. The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
6. The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. - Paul Tillich
7. Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. - David Whyte
8. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill
9. Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. - Rollo May
10. I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. - Marilyn Monroe
11. I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. - George Bernard Shaw
12. Courage means standing next to someone you don't always agree with for the betterment of the country. - Amy Klobuchar
13. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. - Bryant H. McGill
14. Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage. - Paul Keating
15. It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial. - Zoe Saldana
16. What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices. - Sarah Rafferty
17. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
18. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. - Jonas Salk
19. Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. - Gerry Adams
20. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong
21. You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. - Benjamin Disraeli
22. So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. - Zora Neale Hurston
23. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. - Oscar Wilde
24. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
26. I believe in blood, soil, and honor; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage. - Varg Vikernes
27. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. - J. K. Rowling
28. What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? - Logan Pearsall Smith
29. The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. - Daniel J. Boorstin
30. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. - Jean Paul
31. The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. - Carl Lewis
32. I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. - Christian Bale
33. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. - Miguel de Cervantes
34. Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? - Marie Antoinette
35. There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. - Jonas Salk
36. Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. - John Bytheway
37. I have never had doubts about the courage of the young men and women we sent overseas wearing the uniform. - Letitia James
38. I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. - August Strindberg
39. The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror! - Joyce Meyer
40. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. - Maya Angelou
41. The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. - Ruby Dee
42. Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before. - Kathryn Bigelow
43. I have the courage of youth, and I'm not afraid of anything. My only enemies are illegality and corruption. - Alessandra Mussolini
44. Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. - Anna Akhmatova
45. You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage. - John Cornyn
46. If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. - Douglas Coupland
47. The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. - Carl Friedrich Gauss
48. 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
49. Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. - Kevin Rudd
50. I challenge us all to have the courage of our convictions to fight for a fair, justice and inclusive society. - Opal Tometi
51. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. - Plutarch
52. Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day. - Kirk Cameron
53. When I wrap my hands, I do it for my family. I owe my courage to them and also my success. That's why I fight. - Gennady Golovkin
54. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. - Aristotle
55. John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to all Americans. - Katherine Johnson
56. Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. - Brene Brown
57. If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater. - Debbie Millman
58. 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
59. The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. - Ralph W. Sockman
60. When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming. - Della Reese
61. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
62. When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using. - Kirstie Alley
63. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill
64. Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. - George Bernard Shaw
65. In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln. - W. E. B. Du Bois
66. I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! - Jessica Simpson
67. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt
68. In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. - Ben Horowitz
69. Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources. - Dean Kamen
70. Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion
71. Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing. - Karen Salmansohn
72. I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today. - Beth Moore
73. War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial. - Nawal El Saadawi
74. It takes courage to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that you're ugly, or dirty, or a terrorist. - Jagmeet Singh
75. One should have strength and courage to follow their own truth, speak their own language, fulfill their own dreams. - Kerli
76. I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke. - Julia Stiles
77. My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism. - Shiv Nadar
78. We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. - Gloria Steinem
79. We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. - Stokely Carmichael
80. Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of. - Bethany Hamilton
81. Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee
82. Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' - Michael Leunig
83. I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. - Renee Fleming
84. In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. - George Lois
85. I actually learned that you should never give up, and if you love something, take courage and absolutely go after it. - Jessica Jung
86. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. - Ronald Reagan
87. Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. - George W. Bush
88. The Scarecrow needed a brain, the Tin Man needed a heart, and the other dude needed courage. I need love. You feel me? - Ghostface Killah
89. When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free. - Rei Kawakubo
90. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, 'This is what it is. This is unfair; that's not cool.' - Hasan Minhaj
91. The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. - Margaret Heffernan
92. Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate. - Tom Tancredo
93. In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?' - Lady Gaga
94. We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Barbara De Angelis
95. I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right. - Harrison Ford
96. One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. - Ben Okri
97. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. - George A. Sheehan
98. The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. - Tina Brown
99. We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine. - Joe Biden
100. The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See. - Mary Daly
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