Category Courage

Here are some quotes related to courage along with the authors’ names:

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” — J.K. Rowling

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.” — Veronica Roth

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” — Oscar Wilde

“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 naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” — Anaïs Nin

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” — Harper Lee

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” — Maya Angelou

“Courage is found in unlikely places.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” — J.K. Rowling

“One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.” — Lemony Snicket

“True courage is not ostentatious; men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” — Jane Austen

“True belonging is not passive. It’s not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It’s not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it’s safer. It’s a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are.” — Brené Brown

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” — Brené Brown

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” — Maya Angelou

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” — Erma Bombeck

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” — Winston Churchill

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” — Winston Churchill

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” — Nelson Mandela

 

Category Bravery

Here are some quotes related to bravery along with the authors’ names:

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” — Franklin P. Jones

“Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” — Lana Del Rey

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” — Seneca

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” — Omar N. Bradley

“It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it.” — Unknown

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” — Aristotle

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.” — Jean Paul

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.” — Meg Cabot

“Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.” — El Cordobes

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” — Amelia Earhart

“All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.” — George S. Patton

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” — Mark Twain

“What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.” — Andre Agassi

“Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.” — Denholm Elliott

“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.” — Morihei Ueshiba

“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” — Alexander Hamilton

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” — James Stephens

“Sometimes, there’s a fine line between bravery and utter stupidity.” — Andrew Flintoff

“In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.” — Sallust

“It’s hard sometimes – to shake yourself off, say out loud the things you dream of – but taking that chance, that leap of faith, that bravery will always pay off.” — Angela Scanlon

“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.” — Philip Sidney

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.” — Robert Anthony

“Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery – courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.” — James Harvey Robinson

“It takes bravery to end a relationship.” — Leona Lewis

“You don’t know what bravery is until you overcome fear.” — Kurt Elling

“Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.” — Rebecca Solnit

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