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Courage Quotes


"If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle, but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life."


"I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"


"I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing."


"When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice."


"The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life."


"Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty..."


"Fear is a lethal killer of dreams, the greatest cancer that has beset passion, and a ruthless thief of lives stolen and buried in the decay of lives squandered. Yet the greatest tragedy of all is that the fear that destroys us is rarely the monster it pretends to be, nor does it possess anything close to the power that we grant it. Therefore, it is only a killer, a cancer and a thief because we empower it to be so."


"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."


"A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine."


"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."


"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."


"I have always believed that in the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame.When we least expected it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready yet.The challenge will not wait.Life does not look back.A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny."


"Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem."


"One sure way to excel in life, be fabulous and fantastic is to know your fears and deal with them with fierce."


"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."



"God blesses you when you stand up for what you believe in despite opposition."


"To cultivate bravery and courage, ground yourself in your character values:Building a solid foundation of integrity and character will fortify your confidence to face down fears and take bold action."


"If I've learned anything from my past and my present, it's the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don't fight back. I know this well enough."


"Overcoming all obstacles improves us, develops our natural ability and makes us stronger."


"The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths."


"There is tragedy all around us, we pick up pieces, we find our feet and before long another turn of events stare us in the eyes; like we're some kind of magician- the fight seems endless, so I look to the world for inspiration. I observe and I watch how others face adversity, some hide from it, some master each lesson and some create a life with it... Our lessons don't define us, our integrity to keep rising after every fall is."


"Feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless."


"But you can't put fight into a man's guts if hehasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcan't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in themoment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind."


"When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence."


"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."


"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."


"The world will never know you because you were not bold and did not take a risk."


"Chirp of coward shouted in crowd,dare to speak but not to be known."


"Discouragement does not come to passive and indifferent people who lack initiative."


"You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it."
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