Quotes about courage

This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.

'But where shall I find courage?' asked Frodo.

'Courage is found in unlikely places,' said Gildor. 'Be of good hope! Sleep now!'

I remember Icarus. He flew too close to the sun. In the stories, though, it’s worth it. Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor forever. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle.

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

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

And as she lookt about, she did behold,

How over that same dore was likewise writ,

Be bold, be bold, and every where Be bold,

That much she muz'd, yet could not construe it

By any ridling skill, or commune wit.

At last she spyde at that same roomes upper end,

Another yron dore, on which was writ,

Be not too bold.

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

He will need to be just a little bigger than smart, and a little braver than either.

He recognised its voice. It was the young hound which even a year ago had had no judgment and which, by the lights of the other hounds anyway, still had none. Maybe that’s what courage is, he thought.