Courage Quotes

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential."

"Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved."

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

"I must die. Must I then die complaining?"

"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds."

"The commander of the forces of a large state may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him."

"It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men."

"Face the thing you fear, and you will find the strength you need."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor."

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."

"The only way to become a leader is to have the confidence to take the first step when others are waiting."

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

"I am stronger than fear."

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt."

"We have not to fear anything, except fear itself."

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."

"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. p. 127"

"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen."

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence; and the things that it is concerned with are the most formidable of things."

"No man of sense can put himself and his soul under the control of names... You must consider courageously and thoroughly and not accept anything carelessly. 440c–d"

"Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That is where the light enters you."

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it."

"It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."

"There is something I must tell you. When Leonidas selected you for the Three Hundred, I went to him in private and argued strenuously against your inclusion. I thought you would not fight. [...] I was wrong. Polynikes p. 324"

"If you are afraid - don't do it; if you do it - don't be afraid."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"Self-confidence is the belief that you can do it. Courage is doing it even when you're not sure you can."