Courage Quotes

"Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn."

- Rhett Butler

""The easiest way to teach someone how to treat you is to refuse to give them more opportunities to hurt you. Walk away…""

- R.H. Sin

"There’s a difference between wanting to stay and being too afraid to let go."

- Victoria Schwab

"Turn your back on the love you have for someone who has turned his back on you."

- Khang Kijarro Nguyen

"Don’t stay in the harbor and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn’t mean you have to be."

- Joyce Rachelle

"You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Just by being there, looking at the problem or at the darkness of your thoughts straight in the eye and deciding you won't surrender to it, you won't let it swallow you; you are being the bravest you can ever be and starting the path to your personal freedom."

- Nelson Mandela

"Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone."

- Andy Biersack

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

- J. K. Rowling

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."

- The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

"Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse."

- Elizabeth Kenny

"Just so you know, doctors are here to diagnose, not heal. We heal."

- Edie Falco in Nurse Jackie

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."

- Florence Nightingale

"If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything."

- Win Borden

"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."

- Clara Barton

"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Once a nurse, always a nurse. No matter where you go or what you do, you can never truly get out of nursing. It’s like the Mafia… you know too much."

- Deb Gaudlin, RN

"If they are stupid enough to walk away, be smart enough to let them go."

"Nurse: just another word to describe a person strong enough to tolerate anything and soft enough to understand anyone."

"Don’t mess with me—I get paid to stab people with sharp objects."

"I’ve come to the realization that I’ll touch anything as long as I have gloves on."

"Nursing is not a career … it’s a post-apocalyptic survival skill."

"Remember, I’m a nurse. You’re going to have to say a lot to gross me out."

"I’m a nurse—nothing scares me."

"Be nice to me… I may be your nurse someday and remember…catheters and needles come in sizes that I choose!"

"It’s the new nurses who aren’t scared that worry me"

"You know you’re a nurse when your finger has gone places you never thought possible."

"Nurse: the first person you see after saying, ‘Hold my beer and watch this!’"

"Nurses can’t fix stupid… but we can sedate it."

"The nurse that can smile when things go wrong… is probably going off duty."