Courageousness Quotes

One man with courage makes a majority.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

One man with courage is a majority.

The free man is as courageous in timely retreat as in combat

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't think that's very interesting.' I don't think it's very interesting to watch someone who's incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you're not afraid, you can't exercise courage.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

'Oz' means strength - and it also means courage.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.