Courage and Bravery Quotes

"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

"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."

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."

"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."

"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."

"My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'"

"We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity."

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."

"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."

"In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today."

"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."

"John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to all Americans."

"A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace."

"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."

"Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."

"Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not people who failed in self-respect. They were people of hope and great courage, and their courage was disciplined."

"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."

"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."

"Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe."

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace."

"You have to have courage to be obedient to God."

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."

"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"

"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."

"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."

"Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back."

"Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."

"There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King."

"Conservatives have welcomed Trump's attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto taboo issues like immigration enforcement and has demonstrated the hollowness of what passes for conventional wisdom."

"The more wit the less courage."

"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."

"Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement."

"The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength."

"Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds."

"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."

"St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn."

"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."

"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."

"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."

"With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it."

"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."

"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams."

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

"Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'"

"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."

"It takes real courage and conviction to attack the establishment from within and makes waves as big as a tsunami. Ted Cruz has done that - consistently and successfully - on immigration and other issues like Obamacare, voting rights, and the 2nd Amendment."

"Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."