Courage Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
Mark Pryor

Time, Equality, Greatest

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
Judith Rossner

Time, Yourself, Everyone

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
Silvia Cartwright

History, War, Character

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly

Power, Revolution, Key

I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.
Julie Doucet

Both, Three, Took

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.
Richard Hatch

Love, Human, Against

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Stephen Baker

Last, Takes, Force

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
Alexandra Fuller

Beautiful, Honesty, Sometimes

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
John Murray

Hope, Give, Hell

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
H. G. Bohn

Eyes, Arms, Ought

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
William Samuel Johnson

Hope, Whatever, Enlarges

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
Walter Lord

Someone, Through, Personal

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.
Donald O'Connor

Time, Put, Learn

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan

Different, Ambition, Individual

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
Jeff Flake

Vote, Tell, Whatever

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.
Brian Baird

Government, Real, Goal

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
Dean Smith

Sports, Forward, Alcohol

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Eddie Marsan

Love, Great, Ignorance

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum

May, Choice, Making

Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas M. Butler

Work, Necessity

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
Barbara Cook

Last, Show, Three

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Joseph Chamberlain

Human, Others, Quality

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Charles Wilson

Peace, War, Character

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.
Jenna Jameson

Anyone, Letting, Define

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.
Romeo LeBlanc

Daily, Knowing, Known

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