Courage Quotes

"The pen may be mightier than the sword, but it requires courage to use."

"I've never met an Englishman who didn't respect an Irishman who stood up to him."

"Myself and my colleagues in the revolutionary movement were just doing our job."

"The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment."

"To be alive is to be vulnerable; to demand safety is to ask for stagnation."

"A man who has never doubted his own ability to succeed has never really tried."

"One must remember that to embrace one's fate is to surrender to one's deepest nature."

"To write is to risk exposing the innermost workings of one's mind."

"Truth requires the courage to speak it."

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

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."

"True courage is admitting you don't know."

"Courage is something like dancing."

"To be nervous and timid is to be alive."

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do."

"All serious daring starts from within."

"It is the provincial who is timid in the face of strangeness."

"Fear can be a teacher."

"Silence is what I was told to do when I was a girl."

"Running away is not the answer, but sometimes it's necessary."

"What we write about needs to be what we can bear to know about."

"The writer should never be ashamed of staring at the grotesque for it is the gateway to the real."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment."

"The penalty for refusing to live fully is that you never really live at all."

"To truly live, one must be willing to be misunderstood."

"I'll be okay."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to act despite it."

"To be different is to be brave in a world that demands conformity."