Courage Quotes

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared to death."

- General Omar Bradley

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"This nation will remain the land of the free only as long as it is home of the brave."

- Elmer Davis

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

- Joseph Campbell

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

- G.K. Chesterton

"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men."

- Minot J. Savage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything."

- George Marshall

"The heroes are those who make peace and build."

- Nelson Mandela

"You have shielded your fellow citizens from danger. You have defended the beliefs of your country and advanced the rights of the downtrodden."

- George W. Bush

"Whenever the world makes you cynical, whenever you seek true humility and true selflessness, look to a veteran."

- Barack Obama

"These are the hidden heroes of a peaceful nation: our colleagues and friends, neighbors and family members who answered the call and returned to live in the land they defended."

- George W. Bush

"It’s an honor that not only a small percentage of Americans can claim, and one that marks those who are able to claim it as brothers and sisters. It’s a badge of courage that unites across all ages, regardless of background—because to be a veteran is to have endured and survived challenges most Americans will never know."

- Joe Biden

"To all the mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, spouses—all those who stand alongside our veterans—and their families, caregivers, survivors: You are the solid steel spine that bears up under every burden, the courageous heart that rises to every challenge."

- Joe Biden

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."

- Abraham Lincoln

"No matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it."

- Tupac

"We are the champions, my friends, and we'll keep on fighting 'til the end."

- Queen

"If you're going through hell, keep on going, don't slow down. If you're scared, don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there."

- Rodney Atkins

"I'll keep this world from draggin' me down / Gonna stand my ground / And I won't back down"

- Tom Petty

"I would rather bleed out than sit here and talk about my feelings for 10 mins."

- Ron Swanson

"Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved."

- Jojo Moyes

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand—that and such hope as I bring."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time."

- Gandalf

"I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way."

- Frodo Baggins

"Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."

- Aragorn

"You shall not pass!"

- Gandalf

"Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!"

- Theoden

"For Frodo."

- Aragorn

"Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways."