Quotes about courage
191 quotes from 139 people
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (31 January 1958)
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book VIII: Sunset and Sunrise, Chapter LXXIIIn contextShould I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882“Culture,” The Conduct of Life (1860).- Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Essays, Circles.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939Letter to his fiancée Martha Bernays (27 June 1882); published in Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939 (1961), 10-12Courage is of the heart by derivation,
And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
Robert Frost1874–1963A Masque of Mercy (1947)A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Speech, July 14 1943.
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777–1855Letter to Sophie Germain (30 April 1807)
