Quotes about Courage
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
- Theodore Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stop living to please everyone else. God gave you a unique heart, so do what He wants you to do.
- Joyce Meyer
Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'
- Marcus Aurelius
True nobility is exempt from fear.
- Cicero
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead