Courage Quotes

We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid.

~ Audre Lorde

There will always be someone who can't see your worth.Don't let it be you

~ Mel Robbins

Never worry what others say when you walk away from all the drama. Be grateful you had the strength and courage to stay out of the conflict and be at peace with your choices.

~ Elle Sommer

Sometimes, all someone needs is for someone to believe in them. Be that person. Whether it is for yourself or for someone else. Sometimes, that is all the encouragement we need to brave our own courage. The one person you must believe in is yourself. Believe in your potential!

~ Akiroq Brost

Once bitten, twice alert.. Don't shy away.

~ Tapan Ghosh

Courage? I gave a very soft laugh. I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.

~ Anthony Ryan

It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered - 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend.

~ Peter Ackroyd

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

~ George Bernard Shaw

I’m just saying that you live every day like you’re challenging death to come find you, and other people live their days seeing death waiting for them everywhere.” He lifted up his glasses, rubbing the bridge of his nose while he talked. “It’s taking her a lot more than it would take you or me to sit in that car.

~ Rita Stradling

It needs strength to stay silent, but it needs courage to confide in somebody.

~ Namrata Kumari

One needs confidence in the morning and courage at night.

~ Marty Rubin

The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be a potent lesson to the students and interns. It is possible to hold one's head up after an error, to admit that errors are part and parcel of human existence, even in medicine. It is possible to see the error as an aspect of oneself, not the defining characteristic of oneself.

~ Danielle Ofri

I'd like to somehow find the courage to be on the outside who I am on the inside.

~ Katie Mcgarry

A man's life is about keeping rules, breaking them, and making new ones.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

With craziness of mind, I have courage to live as I wish.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.

~ Elena Ferrante

Know that you are enough, so that if a person tries to make you feel beneath them, you'll have the courage to walk away.

~ Terry A O'neal

You do not carry the cross. Instead you are all crucified on the timber of your sufficiency, which is given to you, the more you insist, the more you bleed: it suits you to say you carry the cross like a sacred duty, whereas you are heavy with the weight of your necessities. Have the courage not to admit those necessities and lift yourselves up for your own sakes.

~ Carlo Michelstaedter

I know that in the end you'll overwhelm me, but I'll still fight you as long as there's a breath in my body... Yes, you've robbed me of everything: the laurels of glory, the roses of love! But there's one thing you can't take away from me. When I go to meet God this evening, and doff my hat before the lofty gates, my salute will sweep the blue threshold of heaven, because I'll still have one thing intact, without a stain, something that I'll take with me in spite of you: My white plume.

~ Edmond Rostand

A man of courage is in command of himself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But there is one person who expected the unexpected from me and the only time I noticed disappointment on his face was when I cowered like a sheep. And I had to take a moment to figure out I'm not ashamed of him. It's him who should be ashamed of me. I've put Razor in an unfair position. He introduced me to his world. Welcomed me with open arms. Made me feel like I belonged and I've asked him to keep a secret when doing so is killing him. And I told him that we would be over...I did the exact thing to him that Clara did to me and that's not okay. No part of it is okay.

~ Katie Mcgarry

A counterfeit can never be a substitute for the real thing

~ Sipho Bayeto

Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes. (quoting Jack Gilbert)

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It is brave to believe that you are a unique, precious young lady no matter what your feelings might be saying.

~ Sofi Benitez

And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf to all else, it were doubtless our solitary duty to relieve the suffering about us to the greatest extent in our power.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

It is well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little more courage, more love, more devotion to life, a little more eagerness, one day to fling open wide the portals of joy and of truth.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

No one would speak, so Terence took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and said, My liege?Yes, Terence?Twenty years ago I decided I would die for you. I may not be able to do that tomorrow, but if I can't, I can at least die beside you.

~ Gerald Morris

It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard parts will be your parts, they won’t be hard parts other people have imposed on you for their own reasons, or maybe for no reason at all. And your ownership of them – your responsibility to and for them – makes all the difference in the world.

~ Derrick Jensen

Sacrifice isn't supposed to be easy ... but it should come that way.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.

~ Susan Griffin

These days, a sling of truth, still can make Goliath fall.

~ Tom Althouse

A good author is he who isn’t afraid to speak his mind; he who dictates the art of the verse. A scribbler who merely keeps quiet and enjoys being lauded is nothing but a reader with nothing of importance to do. He whose written word trickles from his wounds into the world and onto paper is not afraid to both praise and criticize, this is what he strives towards.

~ Leila Samarrai

The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die,Knowing nothing more

~ Nâzım Hikmet

Sometimes the thing you think will fix everything ruins it instead. And sometimes what hurts you has to tear you apart before it makes you stronger.

~ C.j. Redwine

Thank you for telling me fairy tales, but also for teaching me how to face the battle I'd need to win in real life.

~ C.j. Redwine

The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are — without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

~ Debbie Ford

Whatever strength, courage... madness keeps us going, we find it, in times like these. You have it, soldier. It's what kept you alive all this time.

~ Danny Strong

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression of yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself. It tathat your presence on this earth matters.

~ Debbie Ford

No matter how deep the night is, there will always be a daylight. MAWUKO

~ Wisdom Kwashie Mensah (Wkm)

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien