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Stop walking with a ‘calendar’. It’s capable of ruining your fate, by showing you the date & limiting your courage, by reminding you of your age.
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.
— Kamila Shamsie, Kartography
Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage?
— Donna Lynn Hope
If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Oh, my god, he thought, realizing why he had always felt negatively towards Eden. She reminds me of my mother. The thought made his throat close up tight. He mused about the day's events. What a ride. Edward had surprised him. The man had courage, committing to love. What had he said to that starlet, none of it meant anything?
— H. Raven Rose, Caffè Latte
It is not so easy as running and not running.
— Robin McKinley, Deerskin
As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.
— Josie Sigler, The Galaxie and Other Rides
Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon
Courage comes with action. The minute you step forward, the minute you declare your decision, the minute you say, "This is how it's going to go," courage comes. It floods through you and energizes every single fiber of your being. You don't have to wait for it. It'll be there.
— Gail Blanke
The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
— Charles M. Blow
When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don't let it stop you, that is true courage. There's never bravery without fear. Just as there's no love without hate. (M'Adoc)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dream Warrior
Courage is not walking into battle with no fear - you should know this as a soldier. Courage is feeling great fear, but walking forward anyway.Lady Lavender by Lynna Banning
— Lynna Banning
Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart
— L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz
I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right.
— Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl
What do you mean? What do you demand of your captain? Are you then so easily turned from your design? Did you not call this a glorious expedition? And wherefore was it glorious? Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror; because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited; because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome. For this was it a glorious, for this was it an honourable undertaking. You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species; your names adored as belonging to brave men who encountered death for honour and the benefit of mankind. And now, behold, with the first imagination of danger, or, if you will, the first mighty and terrific trial of your courage, you shrink away, and are content to be handed down as men who had not strength enough to endure cold and peril; and so, poor souls, they were chilly and returned to their warm firesides. Why that requires not this preparation; ye need not have come thus far, and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat, merely to prove yourselves cowards. Oh! be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
He squinted at her. He recalled the tears in her eyes that had not fallen into her teacup. No, it wasn’t a revelation. Not even to him. Yet, this was the same woman who had stolen a camel right out from under the Anti-Zionist army’s nose. She’d taken his hand, thrown herself down a sand dune on a dare, and then beaten him back up it. She’d glared at him and refused to part from his side. A coward? “Never,” he said again.
— V.S. Carnes
Let nothing human be foreign to me
— Kate Christensen, Trouble
Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed.
— Bruce Schneier
A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person’s unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.
— H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
I was very timid, and bound as with chains in a man-fearing spirit. When I arose to testify I trembled like a leaf, and began to make excuses - O God, send someone else! Then the Lord in a vision caused me to see the bottomless pit open in all its horror and woe. There was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. It was surrounded by a great multitude of people who seemed unconscious of their danger, and without a moments warning they would tumble into this awful place. I was above the people on a narrow plank-walk, which wound up toward heaven; and I was exhorting and pleading with the people to come upon the plank and escape that awful place. Several started.There was a beautiful bright light above me, and I was encouraging them to follow that light and they would go straight to heaven."In all these trials God was preparing me and opening the way for the great battle against the enemy of souls and now the great desire of my heart was to work for Jesus. I longed to win a star for the Savior's crown.
— Maria Woodworth-Etter
There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last.
— David T. Dellinger, From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
I am not sure I can.""Become sure," said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. "Once you leap on a boar's back, you can't sheath your claws.
— Erin Bow, Plain Kate
Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. "I wanted something more and he was it. We both had big dreams." "That must have taken a lot of courage," I said. "To marry Dad. He was so different from you.""It was hardly courageous. It was just the only thing to do. We were in love.
— Margaret McMullan, Sources of Light
Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
— Vittorio Alfieri, Oreste: Tragedia In Cinque Atti
Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.
— Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.
— Deborah Wiles, Countdown
What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.
— Steven J. Carroll, In the Window Room
I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted.
— Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path
Fighting can be like champagne. It can go to the head of a coward as quickly as of a hero. Anyone has the ability to be brave on a battlefield; when you are forced with the choice of: Be brave or... be killed.You may not realize it, but most of us have the chance to be heroes off the battlefield. When we take a stance and find our inner courage, instead of looking the other direction when we encounter evilness or oppression.
— José N. Harris, Mi Vida
To be saved is to believe in one's own courage.
— Marty Rubin
People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of the disagreement, for the sake of protecting a relationship and maintaining connection. But when we avoid certain conversations, and never fully learn how the other person feels about all of the issues, we sometimes end up making assumptions that not only perpetuate but deepen misunderstandings, and that can generate resentment.
— Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
I could've been your everythingbut you didn't have the courageto love me in the way I needed
— R.H. Sin, A Beautiful Composition of Broken
A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.
— John Christopher, The Sword of the Spirits
Keep going, keep going, keep going! You're going to have crappy days, you're going to have days where you lose vision or confidence. You're going to have those days were everything seems 1 step forward and 3 steps back. You're going to have unexpected chaos and turmoil. Are you going to let that derail you? No. You've made a firm decision to go after your dreams. That firm decision means to keep going no matter what. Life doesn't just stop and nor should you. You know you want something, that you truly want something, if you're willing to endure all the pain and grief along the way. You either make a decision or you don't. If you do, that means sticking by it. Riding it out. Don't give up. All things have good and bad. There is no easy street. Everything good takes work. If you want a better life, you have to work for it. Some days it will be easier work than others. Accept that. Work with it. Keep going!
— Akiroq Brost
You're stronger than you think. Even if something pushes you to the breaking point, even if you may need to make a conscious effort to just cope: It's in you, to survive. It may help to break it down into smaller time segments. If you can try to just make it through the next minute, the next five minutes, the next half an hour. With each success, try and lengthen the amount of time. Carry the firm belief in your heart and mind that it will get better. Just that belief is so very strong. Just believing it will get better will have an influence. Sometimes, you'll push through just short spans of time, but as you do, realize that you are capable of doing it. You can do this. Look back at things that you have already gone through in your life and know you survived. You can survive this too. You are so strong. You are just having a challenging moment. It's not forever. You will get to the other side. Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself. Never give up. It's not an option. Try and ask yourself: "How best can I get through this difficult situation? Is there anything I can do in terms of self-care?" Try to be very gentle with yourself. If you cry, accept it was just something that you needed to do. No judgment. In your most challenging days, make an extra effort to be that friend to yourself, you so need. Please, if you're facing a difficult time at least be nice to yourself. Take it one step at a time. Keep hope and faith alive in your heart. Believe it will get better. Do anything you can to help yourself through in the best way possible. You are stronger than you think.
— Akiroq Brost
When you have nothing left, you don’t have anything to lose.
— Tessa Clare, The Divinity Bureau
The bottom line is that no matter what you’ve experiencedin life, no matter what kind of trauma you’ve been through,no matter what bad decisions you’ve made, if you accept therealities of your situation, you can properly address them witha plan and with action.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Whatever you do, please don’t do anything reckless. These are very powerful people, some of which are very dangerous.” She hesitates, then continues. “This is a government agency, and you’re just…” She trails off, and I have a feeling that I know what she’s going to say.“I’m just an office assistant,” I mutter, repeating Gideon’s words.“No. I was going to say that you’re too in love with my daughter to think rationally.
— Tessa Clare, The Divinity Bureau
Have the courage to contribute imperfectly and authentically in a world that is quick to criticize.
— Silvica Rosca, Champion's Planner
It takes a lot of courage to be real and raw, to not hide or pretend, to reveal the real you, the true you. This life is yours, to live as you. Brave the courage.
— Akiroq Brost
It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very mush like to be kissed by you. Doubt will knock you from the sky every time.
— Mackenzie Lee
Every country needs its whistleblowers. They are crucial to a healthy society. The employee who, in the public interest, has the independence of judgement and the personal courage to challenge malpractice or illegality is a kind of public hero.
— Fuad Alakbarov
Many crumble and forget their morals when presented with their pieces of silver. Standing up for what you believe has real dignity too.
— Fuad Alakbarov
Human courage was different from Amazon bravery. She saw that now. For all the suspicion and derision she'd heard from her mother and her sisters about the mortal world, Diana couldn't help but admire the people with whom she traveled. Their lives were violent, precarious, fragile, but they fought for them anyway, and held to the hope that their brief stay on this earth might count for something. That faith was worth preserving.
— Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
We need to talk about the hierarchy of grief. You hear it all the time—no grief is worse than any other. I don’t think that’s one bit true. There is a hierarchy of grief. Divorce is not the same as the death of a partner. Death of a grandparent is notthe same as the death of a child. Losing your job is not the same as losing a limb.Here’s the thing: every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can’t flatten the landscape of grief and say thateverything is equal. It isn’t.It’s easier to see when we take it out of the intensely personal: stubbing your toe hurts. It totally hurts. For a moment, the pain can be all-consuming. You might even hobble for a while. Having your foot ripped off by a passingfreight train hurts, too. Differently. The pain lasts longer. The injury needs recovery time, which may be uncertain or complicated. It affects and impacts your life moving forward. You can’t go back to the life you had before you became aone-footed person. No one would say these two injuries are exactly the same.
— Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
As a CIO, you are the first to step into traffic, to stand alone during a period of change before people come on board. That takes personal courage...Traditionally, in IT, we like to please. But IT is not a popularity contest; it's a reality show where we often have to deliver tough information...Being a CIO means having the courage not to cut corners to please a stakeholder and delivering the hard message that this is not a risk we're willing to take.
— Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT
The greatest courage is to love, to reach beyond the self openly, to expand the very idea of self until it is too large to be named. All other courage is false courage. All else is hiding, a desire for protection.
— Ashavan
Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.
— John Fowles, The Ebony Tower
You learn to be resilient, to survive when you know you are capable of making worthy contribution to the world; you fight it when you have nothing to lose and so much to gain.
— Mala Naidoo, Vindication Across Time
Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent.
— Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
By all means, somebody will oppose it, but if only it is a noble cause pleasant to God, you have no reason to retreat!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I was alone alright. And life surely had been a hard trial for me, so far. From the time mama and Katie fell sick, life had been one misery after another.But here I was. Still with breath in my lungs. And blood in my veins. And memories and voices in my heart. Good ones. And life was going on, all around me. With or without me, it was going on.It weren't a matter of the whole thing stopping or the whole thing going on. The whole thing was going on. It was only a matter of me standing up and deciding what part I had to play in it all.I could be the quitting kind. Or not. I could be the kind of man my mama and papa had raised, or not.I rose to my feet and did the best I could to scrape the worst of the mud off my coat and pants."Sarah's going to be somebody's horse," I said to myself. "And I'm sure as hell gonna make sure she's mine.
— Dan Gemeinhart, Some Kind of Courage
There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
Your willingness to create a change in beliefs, a shift in energy, an acceptance of where you are, and the courage to make the right choices for yourself will make you into the hero you were always destined to be.
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid.
— Audre Lorde
There will always be someone who can't see your worth.Don't let it be you
— Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
Never worry what others say when you walk away from all the drama. Be grateful you had the strength and courage to stay out of the conflict and be at peace with your choices.
— Elle Sommer
Sometimes, all someone needs is for someone to believe in them. Be that person. Whether it is for yourself or for someone else. Sometimes, that is all the encouragement we need to brave our own courage. The one person you must believe in is yourself. Believe in your potential!
— Akiroq Brost
Once bitten, twice alert.. Don't shy away.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.
— Anthony  Ryan, Queen of Fire
A world without heroes is only a world with either mere men or men with wit and courage who never had the courage to take steps that could write great and amazing stories of life!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered - 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend.
— Peter Ackroyd, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
— George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan
I’m just saying that you live every day like you’re challenging death to come find you, and other people live their days seeing death waiting for them everywhere.” He lifted up his glasses, rubbing the bridge of his nose while he talked. “It’s taking her a lot more than it would take you or me to sit in that car.
— Rita Stradling, Ensnared
It needs strength to stay silent, but it needs courage to confide in somebody.
— Namrata Kumari
One needs confidence in the morning and courage at night.
— Marty Rubin
The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be a potent lesson to the students and interns. It is possible to hold one's head up after an error, to admit that errors are part and parcel of human existence, even in medicine. It is possible to see the error as an aspect of oneself, not the defining characteristic of oneself.
— Danielle Ofri, What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Damsel," said the Prince, bowing to her. "You are of a high courage, and therefore, I doubt not, you come of a noble blood in your own world.
— C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
I'd like to somehow find the courage to be on the outside who I am on the inside.
— Katie McGarry, Walk the Edge
A man's life is about keeping rules, breaking them, and making new ones.
— Ogwo David Emenike
With craziness of mind, I have courage to live as I wish.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.
— Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
Know that you are enough, so that if a person tries to make you feel beneath them, you'll have the courage to walk away.
— Terry a O'Neal
You do not carry the cross. Instead you are all crucified on the timber of your sufficiency, which is given to you, the more you insist, the more you bleed: it suits you to say you carry the cross like a sacred duty, whereas you are heavy with the weight of your necessities. Have the courage not to admit those necessities and lift yourselves up for your own sakes.
— Carlo Michelstaedter, Persuasion and Rhetoric
I know that in the end you'll overwhelm me, but I'll still fight you as long as there's a breath in my body... Yes, you've robbed me of everything: the laurels of glory, the roses of love! But there's one thing you can't take away from me. When I go to meet God this evening, and doff my hat before the lofty gates, my salute will sweep the blue threshold of heaven, because I'll still have one thing intact, without a stain, something that I'll take with me in spite of you: My white plume.
— Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
A man of courage is in command of himself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
But there is one person who expected the unexpected from me and the only time I noticed disappointment on his face was when I cowered like a sheep. And I had to take a moment to figure out I'm not ashamed of him. It's him who should be ashamed of me.  I've put Razor in an unfair position. He introduced me to his world. Welcomed me with open arms. Made me feel like I belonged and I've asked him to keep a secret when doing so is killing him. And I told him that we would be over...I did the exact thing to him that Clara did to me and that's not okay. No part of it is okay.
— Katie McGarry, Walk the Edge
A counterfeit can never be a substitute for the real thing
— Sipho Bayeto, Saving Scarlett
Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes." (quoting Jack Gilbert)
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
It is brave to believe that you are a unique, precious young lady no matter what your feelings might be saying.
— Sofi Benitez, Dog Daze
And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf to all else, it were doubtless our solitary duty to relieve the suffering about us to the greatest extent in our power.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
It is well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little more courage, more love, more devotion to life, a little more eagerness, one day to fling open wide the portals of joy and of truth.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
CourageIt is in the small things we see it.The child's first step,as awesome as an earthquake.The first time you rode a bike,wallowing up the sidewalk.The first spanking when your heartwent on a journey all alone.When they called you crybabyor poor or fatty or crazyand made you into an alien,you drank their acidand concealed it.Later,if you faced the death of bombs and bulletsyou did not do it with a banner,you did it with only a hat tocover your heart.You did not fondle the weakness inside youthough it was there.Your courage was a small coalthat you kept swallowing.If your buddy saved youand died himself in so doing,then his courage was not courage,it was love; love as simple as shaving soap.
— Anne Sexton
No one would speak, so Terence took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and said, "My liege?""Yes, Terence?""Twenty years ago I decided I would die for you. I may not be able to do that tomorrow, but if I can't, I can at least die beside you.
— Gerald Morris, The Legend of the King
Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline
— Buzz Aldrin
It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard parts will be your parts, they won’t be hard parts other people have imposed on you for their own reasons, or maybe for no reason at all. And your ownership of them – your responsibility to and for them – makes all the difference in the world.
— Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Sacrifice isn't supposed to be easy ... but it should come that way.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.
— Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
You don’t know what your account balance of personal courage is until that situation presents itself where that check needs to be written and cashed
— Donavan Nelson Butler
These days, a sling of truth, still can make Goliath fall.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
A good author is he who isn’t afraid to speak his mind; he who dictates the art of the verse. A scribbler who merely keeps quiet and enjoys being lauded is nothing but a reader with nothing of importance to do. He whose written word trickles from his wounds into the world and onto paper is not afraid to both praise and criticize, this is what he strives towards.
— Leila Samarrai
The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die,Knowing nothing more
— Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet
Sometimes the thing you think will fix everything ruins it instead. And sometimes what hurts you has to tear you apart before it makes you stronger.
— C.J. Redwine, Deliverance
Thank you for telling me fairy tales, but also for teaching me how to face the battle I'd need to win in real life.
— C.J. Redwine, Deliverance
The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are — without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
— Debbie Ford, Courage: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence
Whatever strength, courage... madness keeps us going, we find it, in times like these. You have it, soldier. It's what kept you alive all this time.
— Danny Strong, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 screenplay
True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression of yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself. It tathat your presence on this earth matters.
— Debbie Ford, Courage: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence
No matter how deep the night is, there will always be a daylight. MAWUKO
— WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM)
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Without craziness, there is no courage.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
...[Y]ou know very well the truth of what I [say]... I have incurred a great deal of bitter hostility; and this is what will bring about my destruction, if anything does... the slander and jealousy of a very large section of the people. They have been fatal to a great many other innocent men, and I suppose will continue to be so; there is no likelihood that they will stop at me. But perhaps someone will say 'Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death-penalty?' I might fairly reply to him 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action; that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one...['] The truth of the matter is this, gentlemen. Where a man has once taken up his stand, either because it seems best to him or in obedience to his orders, there I believe he is bound to remain and face the danger, taking no account of death or anything else before dishonour.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
Suppose... that you acquit me... Suppose that, in view of this, you said to me 'Socrates, on this occasion we shall disregard Anytus and acquit you, but only on one condition, that you give up spending your time on this quest and stop philosophizing. If we catch you going on in the same way, you shall be put to death.' Well, supposing, as I said, that you should offer to acquit me on these terms, I should reply 'Gentlemen, I am your very grateful and devoted servant, but I owe a greater obedience to God than to you; and so long as I draw breath and have my faculties, I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying, in my usual way, "My very good friend, you are an Athenian and belong to a city which is the greatest and most famous in the world for its wisdom and strength. Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honour, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?" And if any of you disputes this and professes to care about these things, I shall not at once let him go or leave him; no, I shall question him and examine him and test him; and if it appears that in spite of his profession he has made no real progress towards goodness, I shall reprove him for neglecting what is of supreme importance, and giving his attention to trivialities. I shall do this to everyone that I meet, young or old, foreigner or fellow-citizen; but especially to you my fellow-citizens, inasmuch as you are closer to me in kinship. This, I do assure you, is what my God commands; and it is my belief that no greater good has ever befallen you in this city than my service to my God; for I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make your first and chief concern not for your bodies nor for your possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as I go 'Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the State.' ...And so, gentlemen, I would say, 'You can please yourselves whether you listen to Anytus or not, and whether you acquit me or not; you know that I am not going to alter my conduct, not even if I have to die a hundred deaths.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
You need energy and purpose to become the person you’re destined to be.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Stand up for your beliefs, and be different.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Appear On Your Fear, It Will Disappear
— Syed Sharukh
All good things are borne from evil, just like good people. It’s very rare that someone does things purely out of the goodness of their heart. Most need something to fight against, something to drive them forward in order to create a light in what will always be a very dark world.
— Kevin Reaver, Plague of Sorrow
What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm."Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him."I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars
I don’t want you to be a people-pleaser
—  you need to stand up for what you want and what you believe.
You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.
— Shannon L. Alder
The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Let your conscience be your scripture and your actions be your religion. Let the humans be your church and compassion be your worship. Let love be your gospel and acceptance be your revelation.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Courage doesn’t defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Chance favours the bold.
— Jessica Shirvington, Disruption
In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Found myself kneeling in Your presenceSeeking Your wisdom and embraceLetting go all the fears and found peaceYou put joy in my heart that my soul endlessly rejoices
— Angelica David
Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one’s self.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
Courage isn’t being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because he was brave. He looked up at Goliath and realized that if he fought Goliath’s way with a sword, Goliath would kill him. But if he picked up a rock and put it in his sling, he could hit Goliath in the head and knock Goliath down and kill him. David used his mind when he fought Goliath. So did we Vietnamese when we had to fight the Americans.
— Vo Nguyen Giap
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that, you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!
— Mary McLeod Bethune
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
If you can't appreciate the full worth of my courage, you can't admire my mastery.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible: Volume 1
...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there.
— Roland Merullo, The Delight of Being Ordinary
A certain kind of courage is required to follow what truly calls to us
—  why else would so many choose to live within false certainties and pretensions of security? If genuine treasures were easy to find this world would be a different place. If the path of dreams were easy to walk or predictable to follow many more would go that route. The truth is that most prefer the safer paths in life even if they know that their souls are called another way.
It takes a Bigger Courage to take on Danger, where None can be Sighted.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.
— Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible
Educate every child for a good courage.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Father knew he might die that day, and he went anyway.
— Catherine Jones Payne, Breakwater
When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation .
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.
— Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
It requires more courage to back down compared to moving forward.
— Yeo Wen Qin
We know your secret.And we won’t be made invisible.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.
— Alexandra Bracken, Wayfarer
Start working on your child’s mind. Start building your child’s character. Raise your child as a human being, instead of raising boys and girls. Raise human beings with the religion of love in their hearts. Raise human beings with the language of compassion on their lips. Raise human beings with the color of joy on their face. Raise human beings with the force of bravery in their nerves. And these brave conscientious souls with the flames of compassion in their hearts shall one day change the course of human history.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.
— Homer Hickam, Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator
In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Be obdurately determined to bring your courage to the world.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
— Brené Brown
You have intellect, and courage, and command. Play your own game, and don't worry about what anyone else is doing. That is what's going to give you a shot at making it. Comparing yourself to anyone else will just drive you crazy.
— Ellen Emerson White, A Season of Daring Greatly
False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.
— Ymatruz
The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.
— Cecelia Ahern
It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It’s not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it’s eminently possible.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones, Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny
If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it,
— Curtis Tyrone Jones, Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny
A person who finds grace never lacks the courage to endure, remain resolute in principles and action in the face of an easy collapse into anger, insanity, and self-destruction when living in an increasing chaotic world filled with armed conflict, terrorism, and cultural discord.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
— Sarojini Naidu
It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal
— Sunday Adelaja
In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
You cannot defeat darkness by running from it.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.
— Nikki Rowe
An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.
— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete
Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.
— Shannon L. Alder
Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It is easy to die,' replied the bannik. 'Harder to live.
— Katherine Arden
A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to face our illusions and live a true life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I can't live a lie. I can't run from my life.
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
Grace represents the sublime glamour of human souls, the ability of physically courageous and emotionally brave people to give part of them in order to protect other people regardless of adverse consequence that they might personally endure.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.
— Jennifer    Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
And then I realized you were not rebellious but courageous. You know what that means? It means being scared but doing it anyway.
— Marilyn Hilton, Full Cicada Moon
It's okay to feel bad about how things went down, but it's not okay to drown in guilt and regret every day for having made decisions other people don't agree with. At some point, we all have to man up and decide to do what we have to do, despite the people around us who try to get in the way.
— M-E Girard, Girl Mans Up
WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
It takes courage and resilience to be true to ourself. We have to know that we will be okay even if others reject or ridicule us. We have to know it won’t destroy us.
— Jeanine Joy, Ph.D.
It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
My mom's like me and she doesn't want to look weak in front of other people. And she's like Colby in the way that she has to take hits at other people whenever she feels threatened. That used to make me want to cave and do what she wants. But it doesn't anymore.
— M-E Girard, Girl Mans Up
If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.
— Veronica Purcell
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
— Julian Assange
It’s a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruelty is at the root of life. And the reason why I have only given my attention to the heroic or the beautiful or the intelligent is because I won’t accept that injustice and the cruelty, and so won’t accept the small endurance that is bigger than anything.
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
they told her, “fear the reaper."she laughed to herself and muttered, 'baby, death ain’t nothing’ more than a quick fuck. a little bit of silence after he comes.
— Taylor Rhodes, moira: a ghost story
You must accept your cross
—  if you bear it courageously it will carry you to heaven.
If you have the understanding to first notice the signs, continue with the courage to follow them.
— Nikki Rowe
It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.
— Nikki Rowe