Quotes about courage

I hope you know that you’ve given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don’t define you. You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Taylor Swift

The green beret is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.

John F. Kennedy

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

Rabindranath Tagore

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

Mahatma Gandhi

Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

Yoko Ono

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man – his courage and hope, or lack of them – and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.

Viktor Frankl

The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree.

John F. Kennedy

It’s the hardest thing in the world – to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

Ayn Rand

A very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions.

Friedrich Nietzsche