Courage Quotes

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it.

This faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom.

When, for decades, you have been able to make a man compromise his manhood by threatening him with a cruel and unjust punishment, and when suddenly he turns upon you and says: "Punish me. I do not deserve it. But because I do not deserve it, I will accept it so that the world will know that I am right and you are wrong," you hardly know what to do. You feel defeated and secretly ashamed.

The history of the movement reveals that Negro-white alliances have played a powerfully constructive role, especially in recent years. While Negro initiative, courage and imagination precipitated the Birmingham and Selma confrontations and revealed the harrowing injustice of segregated life, the organized strength of Negroes alone would have been insufficient to move Congress and the administration without the weight of the aroused conscience of white America.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all other.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford-we have no right-to look back. We must look forward.

This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless, by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.