The innocent curiosity of children gives them astounding courage.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Men did not need to have balls to have balls.

Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action…..no matter what. So you’re afraid? Be...

That’s what courage is. If she weren’t scared, she wouldn’t need courage in the first place.” -Jo

I will never demean myself to speak about my courage,” said Julien, coldly, “it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts.

Figuring out what you want in life is hard, having the courage to full fill it is even harder!

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage

I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer &...

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these...

If you’re living in the present…you only have to deal with what’s actually going on in that moment.

The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as a napkin later, at our victory dinner.

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

The bravest souls I know are those who are willing to risk having the entire world turns its back on them, and all they’ve ever wanted to do – and they would lay down their...

The tears are falling freely now, and I don’t care if he sees them. They’re tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure...

I love you” for the very first time, and I said those words to a person that couldn’t reciprocate them. But guess what? I don’t regret any of it.

Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.

Don’t let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you’re meant to be today.

In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I was a boy on the farm a relative of ours had testified in...

The lesson is this: When the road gets dark and all hope seems lost, there’s nothing to do but keep going. We, like Bilbo, must keep up our “hobbitry in heart.” Even more important, as...

We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can...

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.

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

Girls are like Pokemon, it doesn’t matter how good you are, you can’t catch any if you don’t have any balls.

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Loyalty never put blood back in a man’s veins.

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I’ve no more pluck than any man of my inches but I’d been about a good bit. I’d seen adventure and heard other fellows...

Like the body, courage, too, is a thing weakened, especially when we are young and invincible. We can’t give one the rest it needs and expect the other to protect us. Don’t anger Nature with...

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough.We are...

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn’t any choice.

As long as we don’t get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I’ll be okay.

There is no avoidance in delay.

I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that’s what...

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat.That was until I became one…

I want to stand on the foundation of ethics and morals when the world around me would assault that foundation with all of its collective might, and in the standing I want to stand on...

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.

Kill me then,’ panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. ‘Kill me like you killed him, you coward-‘DON’T-‘ screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though...

If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin’ up anyway.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the...

I will take the ring,” he said,” though I do not know the way.” –Frodo Baggins

Wisdom is knowledge plus courage. You not only have to know what to do and when—but you have to be brave enough to actually act on it.

Don’t be inscribed by circumstances, circumscribe the circumstances

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

Happiness is what happens when you build the level of awareness and courage to continuously identify, challenge, and replace your negative thoughts and beliefs.

It was queer how sometimes a child’s innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.