Selection of my Top 10 Courage Quotes
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
~CS Lewis
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~Aristotle
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
~Mark Twain
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
~John Maxwell
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~Winston Churchill
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
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
~Winston Churchill
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
~Epicurus