Courage and Bravery Quotes

"We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community."

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

"One man with courage is a majority."

"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."

"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."

"Boldness be my friend."

"Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life."

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."

"Fate loves the fearless."

"Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different."

"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

"To see the right and not to do it is cowardice."

"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die."

"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."

"Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"

"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."

"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle."

"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."

"Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free."

"I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly."

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

"From caring comes courage."

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

"Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life."

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."

"Life is to be entered upon with courage."

"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."

"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being."

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."