True Courage Quotes

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

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

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things

True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

I don’t feel brave, especially not right now. (Delphine) That’s what bravery is, especially for a woman not used to having emotions. When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don’t let it stop you, that is true courage. There’s never been bravery without fear. Just as there’s no love without hate. (M'Adoc)

I doubt there is any true courage in squabbling for money.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.