Quotes About Courage

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

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

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod)

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

Never laugh at live dragons.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.

But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

J. R. R. Tolkien