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

Moderns have not the moral courage, as a rule, to avow the sincere spiritual bias behind their fads; they become insincere even about their sincerity. Most modern liberality consists of finding irreligious excuses for religious bigotry. The earlier type of bigot pretended to be more religious than he really was. The later type pretends to be less religious than he really is. He does not wear a mask of piety, but rather a mask of impiety 

“There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.”

“I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him – rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.” 

“There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.” 

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

“It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.” 

“The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.” 

“The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”

“Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.” 

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. ”

I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership… Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.

Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.

Courage doesn’t always roar.

From caring comes courage.