When it comes to why I so enjoy reading the quotes of others, here is yet another quote to explain why:
"I quote others only the better to express myself." Montaigne
Without further ado, please enjoy these quotes on Courage.
It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb. Roman Proverb
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Epicurus
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar Gracian
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. Miguel de Cervantes
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas Szasz
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. R. G. Ingersoll
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again. Anonymous
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew Jackson
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. Samuel Johnson
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. Alfred North Whitehead
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. John Wainwright
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. Horace Smith
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. Robert CodyCourage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. Clare Booth Luce
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Theodore Roosevelt
Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward! Thomas Alva Edison
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. Henry H. Tweedy
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. e.e.cummings
The first of all qualities of a general is courage. David McCullough
Courage is nothing less than the power To overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, While continuing to affirm inwardly That life with all its sorrows is good;
That everything is meaningful even if in a sense Beyond our understanding;
