Courage Quotes

Why is sensitivity perceived as being dangerous? When we’re sensitive, we feel things we were taught not to feel. When we’re sensitive, we are completely open to attack. When we’re sensitive, we are awake and in touch with our hearts – and this can be very threatening to the status quo indeed.

~ Aletheia Luna

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

~ Bhaskaryya Deka

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do.

~ Kenneth Koch

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

~ Erwin Rommel

Sometimes you just have to tell your fear to kiss your ass.

~ Junnita Jackson

Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them.

~ Amit Kalantri

It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.

~ Athol Fugard

Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd;Religions need fearful followers;Systems need obedient slaves;Corporate world needs compulsive consumers,andI NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES.

~ Saurabh Sharma

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

~ Brené Brown

I never studied on fighting demons, but that don't mean I aim to let this one defeat us. The dark ones have their share of limitations too.

~ Erik Bundy

If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.

~ Colleen Houck

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

~ Bertolt Brecht

Please remember, no matter how hard it seems and no matter how badly you feel you can always become courageous.

~ Abeba Habtu

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

~ Heather Dale

One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.

~ Amit Kalantri

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

~ M. Scott Peck

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

~ Brené Brown

People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being all they could possibly be.

~ Margie Warrell

Your “everybody” probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody— to which they refer as the “generalized other”—is usually a collection of about five or six people.

~ Margie Warrell

Mechanized warfare still left room for human qualities to play an important part in the issue. ‘Automatic warfare’ cancels them out, except in a passive form. Archidamus is at last being justified. Courage, skill and patriotism become shrinking assets. The most virile nation might not be able to withstand another, inferior to it in all natural qualities, if the latter had some decisively superior technical appliance. (...)The advent of ‘automatic warfare’ should make plain the absurdity of warfare as a means of deciding nations’ claims to superiority. It blows away romantic vapourings about the heroic virtues of war, utilized by aggressive and ambitious leaders to generate a military spirit among their people. They can no longer claim that war is any test of a people’s fitness, or even of its national strength. Science has undermined the foundations of nationalism, at the very time when the spirit of nationalism is most rampant.

~ B.h. Liddell Hart

Draw from the unbeatable courage and love of Christ--don't stop short, He didn't.

~ Katy Kauffman

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

~ Courtney Schafer

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

~ Jean-François Beauchemin

She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others.

~ Melina Marchetta

Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

~ Tom Courter

Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.

~ Gary Haugen

If we always livein constant fearthen we might missthe beauty of the momentright now, right here.

~ S. Tarr

Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one?

~ Jill Telford

Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars

~ Rivera Sun

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

~ Juliet Marillier

Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.

~ Widad Akreyi

Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You have been so sheltered, Deeta - more even than your sisters. You know nothing of life or of people, in truth I think both scare you. You have little experience of anything but Tom and I and the children. You carved out a little niche for yourself with us, somewhere you were comfortable and safe. With each passing day I have watched you close yourself off from all that is new until it becomes impossible to answer the question of who you are because you do not know yourself. I think you have courage and that you are resourceful, maybe you are brave. But at this moment I see you look at upheaval and adventure with fright in your soul, so that you see only the bad and no good at all.

~ D.d. Chant

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

~ Veronica Roth

There is no such thing as a regrettable act of courage.

~ Tammy Rosenfeld

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.

~ Kimberly Novosel

When you are not afraid to fail, you will always win.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

...'you have to ask yourself though, who are we to stop a war?’I sigh, wishing that the glittering pinpricks above us were truly stars. It was rare to see any due to the endless cloud cover. ‘Who are we not to?’ I say, to no one in particular. If we weren’t willing to try, then what did that say about us? I try to ignore the pessimistic voice eating away at my thoughts. Change could start with a few, but real change needed thousands.

~ H.j. Stephens

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

~ Glenn Greenwald