# Quotes about courage - Quotes: 11 - Authors: 9 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage ## Quotes > Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it. [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/many-people-today.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > Confidence is rewarded, apparently. There was a homewhen proverb that went, "Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy." [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [The End of Eternity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-end-of-eternity.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-end-of-eternity/confidence-is-rewarded.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage. [Stephen Crane](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane.md) · [The Red Badge of Courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/at-times-he-regarded.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Rebel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/the-words-that.md) Topics: [wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [A Happy Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/but-in-the.md) Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name — if ten honest men only — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever. Civil Disobedience Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > Oh for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Civil Disobedience Topics: [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is—a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/the-pitifulest-thing.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > You cannot be a hero without being a coward. [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [John Bull's Other Island](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/john-bulls-other-island.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/john-bulls-other-island/you-cannot-be-a-hero.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > "You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman." [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/you-might-from.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others. [Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr.md) · [Strength to Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love.md) · p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love/the-ultimate-measure.md) Topics: [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md)