Indira Gandhi Quotes

Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

It feels good to show some courage.

Courage is its own reward.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Courage is action, not talk.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Fearless people are interesting to watch.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

I'd rather not be called 'brave.'

I think my mum is courageous.

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.