Courage Quotes

Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-'DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD!

~ J.k. Rowling

It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But... We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.

~ Natsuki Takaya

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

~ Chris Bradford

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.

~ N.d. Wilson

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

~ Martin Luther

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage only counts when you can count.

~ Suzanne Collins

I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.

~ Malala Yousafzai

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

~ Brené Brown

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

~ Ayn Rand

Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart. Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as ordinary courage.

~ Brené Brown

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.

~ Gillian Flynn

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

~ Orson Scott Card

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

~ Xiaolu Guo

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

~ Criss Jami

I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

~ Stephen R. Covey

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.

~ Osho

You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

~ Tom Clancy

It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

~ Reginald Rose

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

~ Wendell Berry

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

~ John Paul Ii

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.

~ Cameron Dokey

Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

~ Paulo Coelho

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

~ Criss Jami

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

~ André Gide

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

~ Bryce Courtenay

Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.

~ Conn Iggulden

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

~ Amy Engel

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

~ Ann Landers

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.

~ R.j. Anderson