Courage Quotes - Page 40

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

Cormac McCarthy

Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow

Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage only counts when you can count.

Suzanne Collins

I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.

Malala Yousafzai

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

Brené Brown

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

Ayn Rand

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.

Brené Brown

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.

Gillian Flynn

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

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.

Orson Scott Card

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Shannon L. Alder

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Erma Bombeck

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Xiaolu Guo

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

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

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Joyce Meyer

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 bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Juliette Lewis

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally."No," Sunny answered."Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

Lemony Snicket

For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face."So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing.""Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing.""Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom.""Dark and sinister man,“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face."Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.

J.M. Barrie

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

Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-'DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD!

J.K. Rowling

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

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 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

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

L. Frank Baum

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

J.K. Rowling

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E.E. Cummings

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch

Harper Lee

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