To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled – because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Power, Courage
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Courage
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
Seneca – Courage and Fear
As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.
Seneca – Courage
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de Montaigne – Courage
He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
Voltaire – Courage
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
G.K. Chesterton – Courage
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G.K. Chesterton – Courage
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson – Courage
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson – Courage, Virtue
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Goethe – Power, Courage
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -it can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw – Life, Courage
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill – Courage, Speak
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill – Courage
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
