Courage Quotes
The quotes worth a second look here are the quiet ones. In Dryden’s Amphitryon (1690) a character says he is “whistling to keep myself from being afraid”, which is still a fair description of how most courage works. Samuel Johnson, according to Boswell (1791), said courage is so necessary to virtue that it is respected even when it goes along with vice. Nassim Taleb, in The Bed of Procrustes (2010), has it the other way round from the usual advice: mental clarity is the child of courage, not the reverse. The psychologist Rollo May is the most-quoted modern writer here.
Two of the page’s better-known quotes are flagged as misattributed: the Churchill line about the courage to continue, which has no traceable source (see Success), and a passage on the courage of our questions that is credited to Carl Sagan.
Most quoted on courage:
Does anyone have the courage to portray the character of Prophet Muhammad in movies?
Good ideas in education cost nothing, except the courage to have them and want to implement them.
The courage that you have when you’re in love is really what I hope resonates.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
“The journey ahead demands courage, humility, and collaboration.”
Courage to accept and embrace one's self, courage to break boundaries and defy standards.
The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.