Courage Quotes

Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

~ Joseph O'neill

The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows the coward is waiting to strike.

~ David A. Cleinman

There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust.

~ Howard Schultz

I aine never seen a fox before. So, why should I be scared of you and I don't even-now know you a real fox for a fact?

~ Patricia C. Mckissack

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has.It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling.He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it.

~ Rachel Hartman

Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.

~ Margaret Mitchell

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

~ Sydney Smith

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

~ Ellis Peters

The word that came to me now was defiant. Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

~ Karen White

Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake.

~ Louisa Young

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

~ Pat Conroy

Sometimes you just have to put everything you got outthere and screw the consequences. Sometimes you have to jump and trust someone else to catch you. Sometimes you have to put your dignityaside and beg

~ Robin Kaye

Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place,And we'll not fail.

~ William Shakespeare

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

~ Edward Lewis Wallant

Courage is not beating up the bully or letting the bully beat you up, it is standing strong before the bully and seeing him for what he truly is: a child of God in need of an attitude adjustment.

~ Toni Sorenson

There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.

~ Elizabeth Alder

Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the ape in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

~ L. Frank Baum

It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

~ Robert Kurson

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

~ Harper Lee

He was lost. He knew it. He had neither the size nor the strength to defeat her, and she had him cornered. But he would fight. He was a warrior, the prince-son of the unicorns, and he meant to go down fighting. There would be no songs to mark his death; and none of his people would even know. But he had saved Korr and the others of the band. It was noon — they were safe out of the hills by now, and none of the rest of it mattered.

~ Meredith Ann Pierce

Where there is love there is courage,where there is courage there is peace,where there is peace there is God.And when you have God, you have everything.

~ Louise Penny

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.

~ Aberjhani

So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it

~ Kamila Shamsie

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Stop walking with a ‘calendar’. It’s capable of ruining your fate, by showing you the date & limiting your courage, by reminding you of your age.

~ Sujit Lalwani

Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

~ Kamila Shamsie

Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.

~ Brené Brown

If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Oh, my god, he thought, realizing why he had always felt negatively towards Eden. She reminds me of my mother. The thought made his throat close up tight. He mused about the day's events. What a ride. Edward had surprised him. The man had courage, committing to love. What had he said to that starlet, none of it meant anything?

~ H. Raven Rose

It is not so easy as running and not running.

~ Robin Mckinley

As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.

~ Josie Sigler

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

~ Charles M. Blow

When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don't let it stop you, that is true courage. There's never bravery without fear. Just as there's no love without hate. (M'Adoc)

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart

~ L. Frank Baum

I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right.

~ Markus Zusak