Courage Quotes

"Courage is not a man with a gun. It's when you know you're licked but you try anyway."

"Writing about the South required me to confront its darkest aspects."

"We must be brave enough to question what we've been taught to believe."

"Constant, unceasing warfare with yourself tends to produce a weird kind of self-intimacy."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"I've endured considerable stress, and I'm still here."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it."

"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is action in the face of fear."

"The courage to be alone is often more difficult than the courage to act."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but action taken despite it."

"The writer must be willing to fail."

"The burden of the writer is to tell the truth as he sees it, whatever the cost."

"All serious daring starts from within."

"Courage is simply doing what must be done despite our fears."

"People are afraid to have thoughts that don't conform to their world."

"The hardest thing is feeling okay enough, just okay enough, to go on."

"The way to get unstuck is to admit you're stuck."

"The best writing starts with the thing you're most afraid to say."

"The greatest act of courage is to be genuinely yourself."

"The hardest thing is to remain fully human in a dehumanizing world."

"You have to feel your own pain to be truly alive."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"Bravery is not a man with a gun in his hand. Bravery is when you know you're beaten and you go through with it anyway."

"The pursuit of truth requires courage and conviction."

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

"One cannot advise a man to abandon his career, but sometimes a man must abandon his career."

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."

"One cannot live authentically without accepting risk."

"One must have the courage to be an individual."

"The greatest mistake is never trying at all."