Quotes about courage

Political courage is not political suicide.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that’s what leadership is.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

For courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare

Evolution and incremental change is important and we need it, but we’re desperate for real revolution and that requires a different type of courage and creativity.

Brené Brown

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

Wayne Dyer

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

Mark Twain

Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.

Napoleon Hill

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Theodore Roosevelt

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

Audrey Hepburn