Courage Quotes

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs, it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

~ Christopher Paolini

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

~ Michael J. Fox

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

~ Mark Twain

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable, to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

~ Criss Jami

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

~ Rick Riordan

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

~ Anaïs Nin

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

~ Marianne Williamson

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

~ Desmond Tutu

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

~ John Wayne

Go back? he thought. No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go! So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

~ Maya Angelou

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

~ C.s. Lewis

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

~ Brené Brown

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

~ John Steinbeck

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

~ Terry Goodkind

Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're nobody ― but-yourself ― in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else ― means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

~ E.e. Cummings

Bravery hides in amazing places.

~ Kiera Cass

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle, it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

~ Criss Jami

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

~ Stieg Larsson

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

~ Thucydides

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

~ Madeleine L'engle

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

~ A.a. Milne

You can always die. It's living that takes real courage. - Himura Kenshin

~ Nobuhiro Watsuki

There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.

~ Alexandra Monir

Some people have more guts than brains.

~ John Grisham

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

~ Anne Frank

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

~ Criss Jami

the courage it took to get out of bed eachmorningto face the same thingsover and overwasenormous.

~ Charles Bukowski

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

~ Amelia Earhart

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

~ Charlotte Brontë

How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?

~ Katie Mcgarry

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication.

~ Carrie Fisher