Courage Quotes

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

Have the courage of your desire.

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

Social Media begins with a story - your story.

It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

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.

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Courage only counts when you can count.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

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.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

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.

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory.

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!

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.

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage

Nothing but courage can guide life.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . .