Quotes about courage
191 quotes from 139 people
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston ChurchillA coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain1835–1910Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 12.Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter XXIXIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain1835–1910Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (12 May 1962)A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer.
