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Quotes About Courage

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
~ Chanakya
I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.
~ Diana Nyad
Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.
~ Etty Hillesum
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life is simple: Make choices and don't look back.
~ Sung Kang
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
~ Thomas Browne
Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.
~ Tim Ferriss
If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.
~ John Heywood
Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew.
~ Kobi Yamada
You got one life, never use it just to breathe.
~ Kristen Ashley
God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose.
~ Louis Untermeyer
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.
~ Roger Crawford
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
~ Seneca the Younger
When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
~ Tom Brokaw
Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
~ Menander
I don't think there'll ever be a challenge in your life if you don't try out something because you're scared. I think you just need to do it without any thoughts.
~ Moon Jong-up
A Warrior trusts other people because, first and foremost, he trusts himself.
~ Paulo Coelho
All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas.
~ Paulo Coelho
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it
~ Olive Ann Burns
Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
~ Regina Brett