Courage Quotes

I think fear is normal, Cade. Just don't let it win.

~ Lisa Schroeder

Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.

~ Stephen M. Irwin

I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?

~ Kate Forsyth

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

~ Catherine Anderson

Everybody knows that. The missing step is always the next.

~ Óscar Lopes

Courage and fear were one thing too.

~ John Steinbeck

The forest has shrunkAnd fear has expanded,The forests have dwindled,There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning, less beauty and the moon lies bare, deflowered by force and then abandoned.

~ Visar Zhiti

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

~ David Crosby

But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether.

~ John Corey Whaley

Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.

~ Charlotte Beers

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

~ Julien Smith

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

~ William Manchester

There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares glowed and disappeared. Shrapnel burst with bluish white puffs. Jets of flamethrowers flickered and here and there new explosions stirred up the rubble. While I watched, an American observation plane droned over the Japanese lines, spotting targets for the U.S. warships lying offshore. Suddenly the little plane was hit by flak and disintegrated. The carnage below continued without pause.Here I was safe, but tomorrow I would be there. In that instant I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

~ William Manchester

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

~ David Gemmell

Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.

~ Corey Aaron Burkes

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

~ Raymond Lindquist

The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped.

~ Marty Rubin

If you’re not scared every day, you’re not pushing hard enough.

~ Richie Norton

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Remember, son, you're most afraid when you can think of no one but yourself.

~ Donna Lynn Hess

Fear is really quite tedious. She wanted to be rid of it as soon as possible.

~ Jim Butcher

It’s natural to avoid the things we fear. Seeking out what terrifies me seems insane on a certain level, but more and more, the longer I’m alive, I find myself drawn to my most intense feelings, both good and bad. It seems that they are screaming out to me for a reason and that I have to know what they’re trying to say.

~ Page Turner

When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be dangerous, but they were very often unperceptive. If fear only rumbled through a woman’s soul and glittered through her eyes, then perhaps the man she feared would not be aware it was there at all. He might even think that she was entirely confident, dauntless. He might believe her veneer of bravery.

~ Kelsey Brickl

Courage is not the absence of Fear, but the ability to act in spite of fear!

~ Harrish Sairaman

I have to go. I have to be brave.

~ Sofi Benitez

You have already lost if you are always fearful of losing everything.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Brave the skeletons, darling.

~ Emma Winters

What is courage without fear?

~ Emily R. King

If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One nurse thought I was brave. I think she was talking about my steely-eyed, grin-and-bear-it kind of attitude. There were no tears, no complaints from me - a total lack of affect. In a victim, it is courage and thus admirable; in a predator, it is a lack of humanity and instills fear.

~ M.e. Thomas

When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.

~ Peter Heller

Growth requires courage, risk and the willingness to go beyond fear.

~ Catherine Louise Birmingham

Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)

~ Richie Norton

Growth requires courage, strength and the willingness to go beyond fear.

~ Catherine Louise Birmingham

When difficulties come, we must see them as what they are---opportunities and a new path to discover your potential. How will you ever know the magnitude of courage you are capable of if you have never experienced the hopelessness of fear?

~ Farah Oomerbhoy

My truth asked people to understand and to learn about depths of pain they had previously walked past…. I had kept my silence for a reason. - from Without a Voice by Chris Pepple

~ Chris Pepple

It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.

~ Catherine Jane Fisher

Losing something happens in a day. An end takes one day. We all seem to focus on that one day, on that ending, rather than on the beautiful story that was created before the end came. We are obsessed with endings, so much so, that we would rather not live at all, than live and then lose. So, we have two choices: to not create our stories because we know that one day they have endings, or, to build our stories and therefore to live, filling the many years with memories and moments! An end takes one day to happen, but life takes place in the moments and in the memories that we choose to feel, to build, to hold. Don't miss out on the years, for the fear of one day.

~ C. Joybell C.

I’ve learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It’s a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

~ Cecelia Ahern