Quotes and Sayings about Courage

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Adventures Feet

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Motivation

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Lord Beckett: "You're mad!"
Jack Sparrow: "Well thats good, cause if I wasn't, this'd probably never work."

Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean - Am Ende der Welt

Craziness & Weirdness

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Dreaming

It ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Rocky Balboa in Rocky Balboa

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Liz in Eat Pray Love

Change

"Me?", said Hermione, "Books and cleverness. There are more important things: friendship and bravery."

Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Friendship

Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.

Malcolm Wallace in Braveheart

Heart

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

J.M. Barrie in Peter Pan

Flying

Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!

Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

War Speeches

When you dance with Death, lead.

Varus the Arrow of Retribution in League of Legends

Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.

Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give

Fear

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

Risk Motivation

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

Ambrose Redmoon

Fear

Come on. Be brave.

Louis Connelly in August Rush

Falling down isn't dangerous or shameful. Not getting up is both.

Konrad Adenauer

Giving Up

"Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave."

Neil Gaiman in Coraline

Fear

Faith is not something to be found. It needs to be ignited and then embedded deep within the very soul of all people.

Old Dwarf in King's Quest - VIII: The Mask of Eternity

Faith

Because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank - Tagebucheintrag

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Psalms - 42, 5

God

What's life without a little risk?

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Life Risk

Courage is not defined by those who have fought and did not fall. But those who fought, fell, and rose again.

Beginning

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

William Shedd

Risk Safety Ships

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love

The loser isn't the one who's falling down, it's the one who doesn't stand up.

Losing & Defeat Getting up Falling down

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul Getty

Danger

A sword wields no strength, unless the hand that holds it has courage.

The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess

Swords & Blades

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

Patience & Endurance

Remembering that you are going to die, is the best way I know to avoid the traps, of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

Life

I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me.

Joshua Graham in Fallout

Fire

They say that the best blaze burns brightest, when circumstances are at their worst.

Sophie Hatter in Howl's Moving Castle

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Kirk Douglas

Failures & Mistakes

Fortune favors the brave.

Terence

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.

Nelson Mandela

Fear

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Dolly Parton

Motivation

When a man is faced with his own death, he finds the impossible less of a barrier.

Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time

Fear

Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.

Lester B. Pearson

Failures & Mistakes Risk

What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child - it's the courage to raise one.

Barack Obama

Children & Childhood Men

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Laozi

If a bird doesn't dare to fly, it'll never know it lives in a cage.

Alma in Welcome to Eden - Season 1 Episode 1

Flying Birds

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Franklin P. Jones

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Christopher Columbus

Progress Motivation

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Fear

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Dan Rather

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise!

Horace

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Viscott

Motivation

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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Dana Scully in The X-Files

Fear Conspiracy Theories

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Dory in Finding Nemo

Life Risk Safety

Danger? I look on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger!

Simba in The Lion King

Danger

The disapproval of cowards is praise to the brave.

Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts - 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald

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