Quotes About Courage

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.

There is no security in this life - only varying degrees of risk. Yet millions unquestioningly sacrifice their lives on the altar of security.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul -- breaking the mental manacles -- getting the brain out of bondage -- giving courage to thought -- filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any man who is afraid to have his doctrine investigated is not only a coward but a hypocrite.

The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.

When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed and crawled at the foot of the throne, and in the dust of the altar, of how they abased themselves, of how abjectly they stood in the presence of superstition robed and crowned, I am amazed.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Fear is the father of lies.

Subjects who are governed by the threats and promises of a king are merely slaves. They are not governed by the ideal, by noble views of right and wrong. They are obedient cowards, controlled by fear, or beggars governed by rewards—by alms.

The suicide wants the very thing that a coward fears.

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen,

Hesitation was fatal. Choose.

She had drawn strength from everyone else's weakness, hoping that her adrenaline-fueled bravery would carry her safely back to normality,

After a short pause, she said, "I don't think I'll be here for my next birthday, Corm." The words hit him like a punch in the diaphragm. "Don't say that." "If I can't say it to you, who can I say it to?

Robert Galbraith

Bestigui, who was five feet six inches at the most, had pushed his way out from behind his desk now; as unafraid of the enormous Strike as a pit bull whose yard has been invaded by a Rottweiler.

If you need a reason to keep going right now, you should hold onto the fact that you're going to be the star witness at this fucker's trial, and if you need a reason to live beyond that, you ought to remember that you were the one Edie called when she believed she was facing death, because she still trusted you with the thing that mattered to her more than anything else.

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

Now she hesitated, wondering whether she dare do what she wanted . . . but surely, if they were best friends, it was all right?