Courage Quotes

I beg you take courage, the brave soul can mend even disaster.

~ Catherine The Great

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

~ Sarah Beth Durst

If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.

~ Gary Haugen

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid, it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we've faced it well.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.

~ Gary Haugen

I just had to find the courage to take that first step.

~ Kirsten Hubbard

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

~ Markus Zusak

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour.

~ W.a. Neilson

...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I don’t for a moment think I am any braver or better than anybody else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the strength to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.

~ Roz Savage

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

~ Neil Gaiman

Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all. It is automatic, unflinching, a mix of man and machine, consuming and unquestionable obligation meeting illness move for move in a giant even-steven game of chess – an unending round of something that looks like shadowboxing, though between love and death, which is the shadow? “Everyone admires us for our courage,” says one man. “They have no idea what they’re talking about.”“Courage requires options,” the man adds.“There are options,” says a woman with a thick suede headband. “You could give up. You could fall apart.”“No you can’t. Nobody does. I’ve never seen it,” says the man. “Well, not really fall apart.

~ Lorrie Moore

But as you get older, your courage attracts gunk and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can get and what pain feels like. By the time you're half-grown, your courage barely moves at all, it's so grunged up with living. So every once in a while, you have to scrub it up and get the works going or else you'll never be brave again. Unfortunately, there are not so many facilities in the world that proveide the kind of services we do. 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

Did I have the courage to forge a path

~ Terry Tempest Williams

My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears.

~ Moffat Machingura

Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!

~ Bram Stoker

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

~ C.s. Lewis

You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus

~ J. Scott Savage

It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison... it takes courage to do something about it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended.

~ Theric Jepson

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on What should we fear and Who should we blame? We all want to be brave.

~ Brené Brown

He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even an idiot can kill with a gun and a knife! A man needs no courage at all to stand behind these things that make him feel invincible and bigger than he ever will be! I don't say that no one should fight! Because battles must be fought, and wars will always be won! But let those who fight, fight with bare hands! The measure of true strength! With his hands and feet and nothing but! The country with truly strong men is able to have soldiers that need not a knife, that need no guns! And if you can soar even higher than that; fight with your pens! Let us all write! And see the substance of the man through his philosophies and through his beliefs! And let one philosophy outdo another! Let one belief outlast another! And let this be how we determine the outcome of a war!

~ C. Joybell C.

Bravery and Stupidity are the same thing, the outcome determines your label.

~ Hayden Sixx

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

~ Ann Brashares

Lena, listen to me, okay? We don't have much more time here. You are in love. I've never seen anything like this before. You have to be brave, okay? You have to go and tell Kostos how you feel. I swear to God if you don't, you will regret it for the rest of your cowardly life.''What if he doesn't like me back?''That's what I mean about being brave.

~ Ann Brashares

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.

~ L. Frank Baum

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

~ David Halberstam

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

When the fear of failure triumphs over the repugnance of mediocrity, we must resign ourselves to the status quo. Every change, every opportunity to do something different will send us running to hide beneath a cover of excuses and complacency. Those few courageous souls who delve into the lands where they risk failure, will be soundly ridiculed. They will be condemned not because they dream, but rather for making their dreams real and destroying the illusion that all that can be thought has been thought, all that can be done has been done, and all that can be felt has been felt. In their enthusiastic insolence, they see life filled with infinite possibilities and they know they must chart their own course, even if they must go alone.

~ D.a. Blankinship

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat.That was until I became one...

~ Cathryn Kemp

Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

~ David Litwack

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

~ Richard Llewellyn

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

~ Elizabeth Strout

Courage has no age.

~ Anne Fortier

So what if you're scared spitless? So what if you're intimidated, insecure or inundated with doubt? If it's the thing that will advance you, do it anyway. Forward movement always begins with an inward decision.

~ Toni Sorenson

Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.

~ Dennis E. Adonis