Famous Quotes About courage

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.