Courage Quotes

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
- Lauren Raffo

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

Fear and courage are brothers.
- Proverb

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
- Marvin Kitman

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller

Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.
- Sultana Zoraya

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
- G.K. Chesterton

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker