Top 100 Courage Bravery Quotes
#1. Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.
Gayle Forman
#2. Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.
C. JoyBell C.
#3. Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#4. Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.
Suzy Kassem
#5. If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy Convent steps onto the battlefield courage is often found to be in short supply. She
Mark Lawrence
#7. Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?
Lemony Snicket
#8. There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
Barbara Boxer
#9. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency
Maya Angelou
#10. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
Markus Zusak
#12. Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
Oscar Wilde
#13. Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.
Richard Llewellyn
#14. Courage conquers all things:
it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid
#15. My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears.
Moffat Machingura
#16. Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side
Kanye West
#17. None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Lydia M. Child
#18. Fortes fortuna adiuvat, Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#19. When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.
Rick Warren
#20. Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.
Vironika Tugaleva
#21. Bravery and Stupidity are the same thing, the outcome determines your label.
Hayden Sixx
#22. Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.
Martina Boone
#23. Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.
C. JoyBell C.
#24. Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.
C. JoyBell C.
#25. Long ago she had thought bravery equaled wandering, the power was in the journey. Now she knew that, for her, it took no courage to leave; strength came from returning. Strength lay in staying.
Eleanor Brown
#26. One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.
Neel Burton
#27. The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#28. Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.
Peter McWilliams
#29. Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#30. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott
#31. Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#32. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
Criss Jami
#33. The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.
Henry David Thoreau
#34. Gratitude
... here at home our faith dwindles
political division
causes tensions to kindle -
we should never forget
who stands at the door -
who shields us with armor
and shall forever more ...
Muse
#35. Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing.
Shannon L. Alder
#36. When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don't let it stop you, that is true courage. There's never bravery without fear. Just as there's no love without hate. (M'Adoc)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. 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
#38. Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
#40. As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.
Madeleine L'Engle
#41. Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.
Brene Brown
#42. I'd go to hell and back and cut off the devil's head myself to save you.
Melika Dannese Lux
#43. We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.
Frank Skinner
#44. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
#45. Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.
Tom Clancy
#46. As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#47. Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended.
Theric Jepson
#48. We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.
Rachel L. Schade
#50. It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison ... it takes courage to do something about it.
Steve Maraboli
#51. Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.
John F. Kennedy
#52. Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small.
Vironika Tugaleva
#53. He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
Voltaire
#54. Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
#55. The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#56. It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.
Steven J. Carroll
#57. Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.
C.J. Redwine
#58. Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
George R R Martin
#59. What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!
Mihail Drumes
#60. You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire."
"And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.
Sarah Beth Durst
#61. The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
Arthur Helps
#62. Finally, finally, this is what bravery looks like. This is what courage looks like. It has nothing to do with dominating the day, every single day. It has to do with showing up and speaking truth. One true sentence after one true sentence.
Hannah Brencher
#63. And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
Paulo Coelho
#64. Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
Emma Donoghue
#65. Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.
Auliq Ice
#67. The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.
Criss Jami
#68. War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.
Catherine Watson
#70. Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness.
Suzy Kassem
#73. In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted. That is required. And that should be expected. For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.
Clarence Thomas
#74. There is no freedom without bravery.
Ben Carson
#75. I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[ ... ] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.
David Levithan
#76. Perhaps, she thought, that's what love does. It's not there to make you feel special. It's to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie - two words for the same thing.
Katherine Rundell
#77. Could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery?
Arthur C. Clarke
#79. If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?
Suzy Kassem
#80. When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
#82. To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.
Shannon L. Alder
#83. I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?
Kate Forsyth
#84. To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.
Steve Maraboli
#86. It's scary to make friends, it's scarier to stand up for a friend, but it's scariest to not be a friend for fear will be your only company.
Justine Hail
#88. If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.
Veronica Purcell
#90. We were taught to be good, and we were taught to be careful. But in this world, sometimes, I do not think we can be the two at once.
Marguerite Bennett
#91. Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.
Johnny Rich
#92. EMTs learned to love brave patients
they weren't nearly such a pain in the ass as the whiners
but not to trust them. In the name of courage, they would hide symptoms, not ask for help when there was help hovering around them anxious to give them succor ...
Nevada Barr
#94. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna
#95. True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#96. In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#97. there's a single phrase to describe Sister Simone, it is "compassionate conviction." With bravery, with courage, with optimism, she is focused on the common good. She is a champion for the cause of peace and justice. She has the will and the drive to do right.
Simone Campbell
#98. Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
#99. So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
Mike Norton
#100. You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart's deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.
Shannon L. Alder
