Courage Quotes

summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.

~ Deb Caletti

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone.But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying – even more terrible than dying young.

~ Jeanne D'arc

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

~ Robert F. Kennedy

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the man he was now, who knew what it was to love and be loved. “Dear heart,” he said. He took her hand and kissed it. “Who knows your courage better than I?

~ Cassandra Clare

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.

~ Trieu Thi Choi

I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.

~ John Patrick Shanley

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

~ Marlene Dietrich

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's theperson who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does somethingabout it that makes a difference.

~ Nolan Bushnell

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

~ Susan Cain

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.

~ Amit Ray

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

~ Bette Davis

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

~ Margaret Mitchell

When you find your path, you must ignore fear. You need to have the courage to risk mistakes. But once you are on that road... run, run, run, and don't stop til you've reached its end.

~ José N. Harris

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place. -Jo

~ Nicholas Sparks

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.

~ Nikki Rowe

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Anger is the prelude to courage.

~ Eric Hoffer

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Inside me, there is an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it going right through my head and down to my legs, and I know that it exists inside me. It's the one that lets me stand up and walk forward. So that I can walk forward, without ever trembling. If I stopped here I feel like it would break...My soul would break. Even more than if my heart stops beating, to me that is the most important. Even if I become senile and my back gets bent, I still have to walk forward.

~ Hideaki Sorachi

What worries you, masters you.

~ John Locke

Courage originally meant To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

~ Brené Brown

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

~ John F. Kennedy

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

~ Umberto Eco

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

~ Maxwell Maltz

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

~ Herodotus

Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after.

~ Cath Crowley

Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don’t always have the guts to make it.

~ Ray N. Kuili

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

~ Zeno Of Citium

You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I’ve learned that sometimes, when you’re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is.

~ Cynthia Hand

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?

~ E.b. White

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

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough.We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

~ Alistair Maclean

I learned not to fear infinity,The far field, the windy cliffs of forever,The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow,The wheel turning away from itself,The sprawl of the wave,The on-coming water.

~ Theodore Roethke

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

~ Ruth Gordon

Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician.Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future or have faith that the past will always be there.Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket attack from an M16.A crushing, suffocating death, a slow bleeding death in an ambulance stopped for hours at a checkpoint. A dark death, at a torture table in an Israeli prison: just a random arbitrary death.A cold calculated death: from a curable disease. A thousand small deaths while you watch your family dying around you.Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the earth, water falling over water.And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then you know something of the courage that is Palestine.

~ Suheir Hammad