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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, The Ersatz Elevator
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, Peter Pan
the courage it took to get out of bed eachmorningto face the same thingsover and overwasenormous.
— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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, Jane Eyre
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, Dare You To
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, Wishful Drinking
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, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But... We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.
— Natsuki Takaya
Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.
— Chris Bradford, The Way of the Sword
Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.
— N.D. Wilson, Dandelion Fire
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
— Martin Luther
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, All the Pretty Horses
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, Gregor the Overlander
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, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
What we know matters but who we are matters more.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
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 Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame
I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
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, Empire
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, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
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, Killosophy
I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.
— Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.
— Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.
— Shannon L. Alder
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
— Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit
It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.
— Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
— Wendell Berry, A Place on Earth
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
— John Paul II
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.
— Cameron Dokey, The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
— André Gide
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
— Bryce Courtenay
Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.
— Conn Iggulden, Genghis: Birth of an Empire
I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.
— Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy
Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
— Ann Landers
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.
— R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.
— Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone.But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying – even more terrible than dying young.
— Jeanne d'Arc
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Do anything, save to lie down and die!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the man he was now, who knew what it was to love and be loved. “Dear heart,” he said. He took her hand and kissed it. “Who knows your courage better than I?
— Cassandra Clare, The Whitechapel Fiend
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.
— Trieu Thi Choi
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.
— John Patrick Shanley, 13 by Shanley
Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
— Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's ABC
Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's theperson who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does somethingabout it that makes a difference.
— Nolan Bushnell
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
— Bette Davis
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
When you find your path, you must ignore fear. You need to have the courage to risk mistakes. But once you are on that road... run, run, run, and don't stop til you've reached its end.
— José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo
— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.
— Nikki Rowe
Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion
Anger is the prelude to courage.
— Eric Hoffer
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Inside me, there is an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it going right through my head and down to my legs, and I know that it exists inside me. It's the one that lets me stand up and walk forward. So that I can walk forward, without ever trembling. If I stopped here I feel like it would break...My soul would break. Even more than if my heart stops beating, to me that is the most important. Even if I become senile and my back gets bent, I still have to walk forward.
— Hideaki Sorachi
What worries you, masters you.
— John Locke
Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
— Shirley Maclaine
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
— John F. Kennedy
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
— Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
— Maxwell Maltz
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
— Herodotus, The Histories
Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after.
— Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don’t always have the guts to make it.
— Ray N. Kuili, Awakening
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
— Zeno of Citium
You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.
— Shannon L. Alder
I’ve learned that sometimes, when you’re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is.
— Cynthia Hand, Hallowed
If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?
— E.B. White, The Elements of Style
May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts. 
— Thomas S. Monson
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough.We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.
— Alistair MacLean, The Guns of Navarone
I learned not to fear infinity,The far field, the windy cliffs of forever,The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow,The wheel turning away from itself,The sprawl of the wave,The on-coming water.
— Theodore Roethke
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
— Ruth Gordon
Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician.Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future or have faith that the past will always be there.Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket attack from an M16.A crushing, suffocating death, a slow bleeding death in an ambulance stopped for hours at a checkpoint. A dark death, at a torture table in an Israeli prison: just a random arbitrary death.A cold calculated death: from a curable disease. A thousand small deaths while you watch your family dying around you.Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the earth, water falling over water.And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then you know something of the courage that is Palestine.
— Suheir Hammad
Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.
— Blaine Lee Pardoe
True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...
— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.
— Tamera Alexander, Within My Heart
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
— Stephen King, Just After Sunset
An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.
— Sophie Scholl
All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
One man with courage makes a majority.
— Andrew  Jackson
This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.
— Maya Van Wagenen, Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
— Henri Matisse
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
— Earl Wilson
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?
— Lisi Harrison, Monster High
Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.
— Maya Angelou
I don’t want Tiamat to go back,” said Jeremy sullenly. “I want her to stay here with me.”Miss Priest laughed. It was not a horrible laugh at all. “What a terrible idea!” she said. “Why do you want her to stay?”Because I love her. I don’t want to lose her.”Miss Priest reached out and took his chin in her hand. She looked into his eyes. “You silly boy,” she said. “Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.
— Bruce Coville, Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
To gain that which is worth having,it may be necessary to lose everything else.
— Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, The Price of my Soul
Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.
— Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree
Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie—two words for the same thing.
— Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers
Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.
— Jim Beaver, Life's That Way
It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
— Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
— Sophie Scholl
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 was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
— Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
— Nora Roberts
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.
— James Lee Burke
It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage.
— Lois Lenski, Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
— Al Álvarez
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth
You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.
— Jack Campbell, Relentless
You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
— Winston S. Churchill
If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me.
— U.S. Marine Corps
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
— Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you’ll most likely fail even before everything else starts.
— Veronica Mist, The Seven - The Key of Credence
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
— Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
You will not be alone, I say to them, spinning to see their faces. You don't need to be afraid anymore. We want to take back our world. We want to save the lives of our family members, our friends. We want your children to have a chance at a better future. And we want to fight. We want to win. I lock eyes with them. And we are asking for your help.
— Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
— Mary Tyler Moore
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.
— Pericles
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)
— Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)
— Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.
— Sophie Scholl
I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the moment you judge my character is when we have a problem.
— Rachelle Friedman
Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.
— Sharon E. Rainey
Now, this is what the Lord says, "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.
— Pip Karmel
If you have the courage to love, then you should have the courage to suffer, too.
— E.H. Majaw
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.The secret is in action - here and now.It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself.Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect- whatever your idea of perfection may be.All you need is courage.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
— Dan Simmons, Endymion
September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the deep sad loss of so many lives… I will never forget the smell of the smoke that reached across the water and delivered a deep feeling of doom into my gut… I will never forget feeling the boosted sense of unity and pride… I will never forget seeing the courageous actions of so many men and women… I will never forget seeing people of all backgrounds working together in community… I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal…
— Steve Maraboli
Question.""Yes," Candace asked expectantly, eyes fixed on the dark street ahead."Have you ever had to chose sides between a friend and a boyfriend?"Candace nodded."Which side are you suppose to pick?""The right one.""What if they're both right?""They're not.""But they are," Melody insisted. "That's the problem.""No." Candace slowly rolled past a police cruiser. "They both think they're right. But who do you think is right? Which side represents the thing you think is worth fighting for?"Melody glanced out the window as though she was expecting the answer to be revealed on a neighbor's lawn. Every house except hers had the lights turned off. "I dunno.""You do," Candace insisted. "You just don't have the courage to be honest with yourself. Because then you'd have to do the thing you don't want to do, and you hate doing anything that's hard. Which is why you gave up singing and why you have no life and why you've always been a -""Um okay! Can we get back to the part where you were sounding like Oprah?""I'm just saying, Melly, what would you do if you weren't afraid? That's your answer. That's your side." She turned into the circular driveway and put the SUV in PARK. "And if you don't choose it, you're lying to yourself and everyone around you." She opened the door and grabbed her purse. "Oprah out!"The door slammed behind her.
— Lisi Harrison, Monster High
Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?
— David Benioff, City of Thieves
Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
— Bruce Lee
If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they
— Sting, Nothing Like the Sun
Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.
— Saurabh Sharma
Being brave...is not always being unafraid. Maybe it's more like doing what you know is right even when you're too tired. Or scared. It's going on and doing it anyway...even when you think you can't take one more step.
— Bodie Thoene, The Key to Zion
The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.
— John Connolly, The Reapers
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
— Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
You f*#ked my v*g*na, you wanted to think that you f#*ked my mind, but unlike you, D*ck, my mind doesn't lie between my two legs. ~ Subhangi Tyagi
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?
— Shannon L. Alder
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
— Maya Angelou
Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.
— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.
— Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.
— Edward M. Hallowell, Dare to Forgive: The Power of Letting Go & Moving on
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
— Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
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.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
— Thomas Fuller
Courage is stepping forward when all you can see is darkness.
— Toni Sorenson
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage 
— J.M. Barrie
You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.
— Lew Freedman
Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible
— Adedayo kingjerry
The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.
Courage is nothing to laugh at, not if it is proper courage and exercised by men who know what they do is proper. Proper courage is wise courage. It's acting wisely, acting wisely when fear would have a man act otherwise. It is the endurance of the soul in spite of fear - wisely.
— Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
— Don Juan
Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.
— C. JoyBell C.
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
— Delmore Schwartz, Last and Lost Poems
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
— Dejan Stojanovic
You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how you love. There is courage in that.
— Bianca Sparacino
Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.
— C.J. Redwine, Deception
She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.
— Amanda Quick, The Perfect Poison
Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness.
— Fadi Hattendorf
All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas...only a few of us have the courage to take the next step.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth
—  no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
There is no avoidance in delay.
— Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.
— Nancy Farmer
They say the only way you can truly kill a Celestra is by fire. I would gladly lend myself to the flames to peer down eternally over this sinful disgrace of a planet that houses cowards such as these.
— Addison Moore, Vex
You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.
— O.R. Melling
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
— Corra Harris
A good conscience is eight parts of courage.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped and Catriona
Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?
— Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows the coward is waiting to strike.
— David A. Cleinman
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust.
— Howard Schultz, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
be bold to face the battle, if you win then you are lucky and if you loose then you will be wise....
— Adedayo kinjerry
Nothing but courage can guide life.
— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
I aine never seen a fox before. So, why should I be scared of you and I don't even-now know you a real fox for a fact?
— Patricia C. McKissack, Flossie and the Fox
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has.""It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling."He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. "I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it.
— Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
— Sydney Smith, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations, from the Literature of All Ages
Things are always given to us when we need them (Acheron)." "That's so not true," Wulf said. "Actually it is. You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make ityours (Acheron).
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night
They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
— Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice
He never gave up. And he does that for us
— Steven Spielberg
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.
— Karen   White, The Beach Trees
Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake.
— Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
— Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Sometimes you just have to put everything you got outthere and screw the consequences. Sometimes you have to jump and trust someone else to catch you. Sometimes you have to put your dignityaside and beg
— Robin Kaye, Back to You
Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage
— Hero Shade
Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place,And we'll not fail.
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession...
— R.M. Ballantyne
Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.
— Edward Lewis Wallant, The Tenants of Moonbloom
Courage is not beating up the bully or letting the bully beat you up, it is standing strong before the bully and seeing him for what he truly is: a child of God in need of an attitude adjustment.
— Toni Sorenson
There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.
— Elizabeth Alder, The King's Shadow
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz
— L. Frank Baum
It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.
— Robert Kurson, Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
He was lost. He knew it. He had neither the size nor the strength to defeat her, and she had him cornered. But he would fight. He was a warrior, the prince-son of the unicorns, and he meant to go down fighting. There would be no songs to mark his death; and none of his people would even know. But he had saved Korr and the others of the band. It was noon — they were safe out of the hills by now, and none of the rest of it mattered.
— Meredith Ann Pierce, Birth of the Firebringer
Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Where there is love there is courage,where there is courage there is peace,where there is peace there is God.And when you have God, you have everything.
— Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling
Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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.
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
— Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it
— Kamila Shamsie
Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway