Courage Quotes

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

~ L. Frank Baum

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

~ Tamera Alexander

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

~ Paulo Coelho

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

~ Stephen King

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

~ Sophie Scholl

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

~ Muhammad Ali

One man with courage makes a majority.

~ Andrew Jackson

This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.

~ Maya Van Wagenen

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

~ Henri Matisse

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

~ Lisi Harrison

Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.

~ Maya Angelou

I don’t want Tiamat to go back,” said Jeremy sullenly. “I want her to stay here with me.”Miss Priest laughed. It was not a horrible laugh at all. “What a terrible idea!” she said. “Why do you want her to stay?”Because I love her. I don’t want to lose her.”Miss Priest reached out and took his chin in her hand. She looked into his eyes. “You silly boy,” she said. “Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

~ Bruce Coville

To gain that which is worth having,it may be necessary to lose everything else.

~ Bernadette Devlin Mcaliskey

Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.

~ Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie—two words for the same thing.

~ Katherine Rundell

Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.

~ Jim Beaver

It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.

~ Renee Ahdieh

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 was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

~ Criss Jami

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

~ James Lee Burke

It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage.

~ Lois Lenski

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

~ Jack Campbell

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

~ Winston S. Churchill

If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me.

~ U.s. Marine Corps

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

~ Lev Grossman

Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you’ll most likely fail even before everything else starts.

~ Veronica Mist

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

~ Graham Greene

You will not be alone, I say to them, spinning to see their faces. You don't need to be afraid anymore. We want to take back our world. We want to save the lives of our family members, our friends. We want your children to have a chance at a better future. And we want to fight. We want to win. I lock eyes with them. And we are asking for your help.

~ Tahereh Mafi

When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life.

~ Roman Payne

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

~ Mary Tyler Moore

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

~ Neal A. Maxwell

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

~ Pericles

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings. (p. 16-17)

~ Rollo May

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

~ Rollo May

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

~ William Faulkner

I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the moment you judge my character is when we have a problem.

~ Rachelle Friedman

Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.

~ Sharon E. Rainey