Quotes about courage

Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o’clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

Napoleon

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

Norman Vincent Peale

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Socrates

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o’clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

Napoleon

Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore… but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.

Guy Kawasaki

If there’s one thing the American people aren’t lacking, it is courage.

Ronald Reagan

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens.

Max Lucado