Political Courage Quotes:

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

- Winston Churchill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

- Tony Blair

source: Tony Blair (2010). “A Journey”, p.28, Random House

topic: Thinking, Long Ago, People, Calculated Risk, Political Courage

The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

- Molly Ivins

source: "Molly Ivins: Not. backing. Hillary." by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2006.

topic: Country, Hero, Long, Political Courage

Political courage is not political suicide.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

source: Arnold Schwarzenegger's environmental speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, New York, www.cfr.org. April 12, 2007.

topic: Political Courage

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

- Ron Fournier

topic: Self, Class, Roots, Joblessness, Fiscal Cliff

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

- Joe Scarborough

topic: Political, Three, Sides, Bobby Kennedy, Political Courage

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

- Jeff Goodell

topic: Oil, Political, President, Political Courage, Foreign Oil

What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Art, Real, Thinking, Political Courage

Political courage requires clarity.

- Joe Klein

topic: Political, Clarity, Political Courage