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Courage Quotes


"Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."


"If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized."


"It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins."


"And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness."


"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage."


"You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back."


"If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween."


"You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps."


"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."


"The first step forward is to admit your fear, then you can take the next step to conquer it."


"Shine in any season of your life!Head on with confidence in your life's pilgrim!In deep faith, countless hope and unconditional love blessed by the Almighty.Newness of each rising day, bringing forth colourful sunsets.Enkindle your soul once more with courage, joy and love,flowing in a river of awakening & sharing:with a heart who once knew that hurt, pain, loss means to SHINE!"


"I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears."


"Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage."


"A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly."


"Singing in a storm silences thunder's threats."


"Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it."


"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."


"And he said that wasn't brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,' said Coraline to the cat. 'It wasn't brave because he wasn't scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave.'"'Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave."


"And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"


"My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self."


"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."


"She was the bravest person I ever knew."


"Fear is the first and last obstacle on your path to greatness."


"I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this."


"By all means, somebody will oppose it, but if only it is a noble cause pleasant to God, you have no reason to retreat!"


"Courage mounteth with occasion."
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