Courage Quotes

Now, this is what the Lord says, Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

~ Anonymous

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.

~ Pip Karmel

If you have the courage to love, then you should have the courage to suffer, too.

~ E.h. Majaw

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.The secret is in action - here and now.It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself.Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect- whatever your idea of perfection may be.All you need is courage.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

~ Dan Simmons

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

~ David Benioff

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

~ Bruce Lee

Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

~ Saurabh Sharma

Being brave...is not always being unafraid. Maybe it's more like doing what you know is right even when you're too tired. Or scared. It's going on and doing it anyway...even when you think you can't take one more step.

~ Bodie Thoene

The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.

~ John Connolly

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

~ Samuel Johnson

You f*#ked my v*g*na, you wanted to think that you f#*ked my mind, but unlike you, D*ck, my mind doesn't lie between my two legs. ~ Subhangi Tyagi

~ Kirtida Gautam

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

~ Maya Angelou

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

~ Robert Mckee

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

~ Lev Grossman

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

~ Edward M. Hallowell

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

~ Wallace Stevens

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

~ Thomas Fuller

Courage is stepping forward when all you can see is darkness.

~ Toni Sorenson

Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible

~ Adedayo Kingjerry

The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.

~ Hafiz

Courage is nothing to laugh at, not if it is proper courage and exercised by men who know what they do is proper. Proper courage is wise courage. It's acting wisely, acting wisely when fear would have a man act otherwise. It is the endurance of the soul in spite of fear - wisely.

~ Tim O'brien

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

~ Don Juan

Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.

~ C. Joybell C.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

~ Criss Jami

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

~ Delmore Schwartz

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how you love. There is courage in that.

~ Bianca Sparacino

And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.

~ C.j. Redwine

She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.

~ Amanda Quick

Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness.

~ Fadi Hattendorf

All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas...only a few of us have the courage to take the next step.

~ Manoj Arora

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth, no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

~ Rollo May

There is no avoidance in delay.

~ Aeschylus

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

~ Nancy Farmer

They say the only way you can truly kill a Celestra is by fire. I would gladly lend myself to the flames to peer down eternally over this sinful disgrace of a planet that houses cowards such as these.

~ Addison Moore

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

~ O.r. Melling

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson