Quotes on Courage

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

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.

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.