Quotes About Courage

There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have been called fools or criminals in their time they are the roster of great men as far as the record of human history is concerned- and visualized something which can be called universally human and which is not identical with what a particular society assumes human nature to be. There were always men who were bold and imaginative enough to see beyond the frontiers of their own existence.

Few parents have the courage and independence to care more for their children's happiness than for their success.

What he needs," Lee said, "is a father who supports him!" She'd been thirteen, the bravest girl in the world

There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

She [Akhmatova] was not afraid of calling evil by its name and had learnt that do this was of the utmost importance

At last she said: 'I can help you, I know I can, I will. But it is a big task for a small person. Do children in your world usually perform such tasks?' Nathan thought of all the books he had ever read, of the Pevensies, Colin and Susan, Harry Potter, Lyra Belacqua, and a hundred others. 'All the time,' he said.

Nos morituri te salutamus." The traditional greeting of the gladiators: We who are about to die salute you…

Whoever John Stoner is, he is no magician. He could not have made you into a hero if you had not already possessed the raw material." -Concordia Glade to Ambrose Wills.

I have no husband, sir. Nor am I eager to acquire one. From my observation, husbands tend to limit a woman's adventures.

Hell of a thing." Bad Jacket shook his head. "He survives that warehouse fire only to fall down a flight of stairs.

Of course I won't go alone. I shall take my maid." "No," Sebastian said. "You will take me.

She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.

I am always happy when my body remembers to feel things other than scared.

she had no intention of exploring an abandoned graveyard alone at night. There was curious and there was stupid.

There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.

You can't fight evil in the dark, Sarah. The only way you can truly defeat it is to bring it into the light.

Being brave and being fearless are two different things.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

It is not easy to be brave. This world discourages authenticity from infancy. It is not easy to do what you just did. It is not easy to just . . . speak. Or even to wait to speak, for that matter.

Amber Tamblyn

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.