Courage Quotes

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
- Nicholas Murray Butler

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
- Dorothy Bernard

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
- John F. Kennedy

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead

You can't test courage cautiously.
- Anne Dillard

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
- Charles Kennedy

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
- H.G. Bohn

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 as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
- Diane de Poitiers