Courage Quotes

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C.S. Lewis

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
- Douglas Malloch

Courage is a kind of salvation.
- Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- Plato

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
- Horace Smith

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
- Ambrose Bierce

One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
- Dan Rather

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
- Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942