Veronica Roth Quotes

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

I fear no one.

When you're young, you're cocky.

I fear nothing.

I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

God himself favors the brave.

The brave are parsimonious of threats.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.

My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.