A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.