Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
- Charles Kennedy
Courage Quotes and Sayings
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou
Wisdom compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Confucius
Courage is nine tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
- Joseph Epstein
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- Aristotle
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
- Coventry Patmore
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C.S. Lewis
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
- Henry S. Haskins
I with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt