Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Winston S. Churchill
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
-E.E. Cummings
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
-Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
-Maya Angelou
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
-Coco Chanel
Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.
-George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.
C. JoyBell C.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
“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. SOUTHERN LIVING
“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
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonapart
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien. SOUTHERN LIVING
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
― John Wayne
“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”― Shannon L. Alder. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”― Shannon L. Alder
“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody.” ― Justin Cronin. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”
― Justin Cronin
“Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action….no matter what. So you’re afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you’re trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!” ― Richelle E. Goodrich. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action….no matter what. So you’re afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you’re trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!”
― Richelle E. Goodrich
“Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee – and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.” ― Jim Butcher. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee – and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.”
― Jim Butcher
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” ― Bryce Courtenay. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”
― Bryce Courtenay
“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.” ― Robert A. Heinlein. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. He is also a fool.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don’t always have the guts to make it.” ― Ray N. Kuili. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don’t always have the guts to make it.”
― Ray N. Kuili
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.” ― Victor Hugo. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Victor Hugo
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ” ― C.S. Lewis. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. “
― C.S. Lewis
“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.” ― Madeleine L’Engle. SOUTHERN LIVING
“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.”
― Madeleine L’Engle
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” ― Erica Jong. SOUTHERN LIVING
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. SOUTHERN LIVING
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“The conscience of every man recognizes courage as the foundation of manliness, and manliness as the perfection of human character.”
Thomas Hughes
“Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.”
Sir Walter Scott
“Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We have more respect for a man who robs boldly on the highway, than for a fellow who jumps out of a ditch, and knocks you down behind your back. Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.”
Samuel Johnson
“A man without courage is a knife without an edge.”
Proverb
“Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.”
Jean Paul
“All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
John Locke
“It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“A man without courage is to me the most despicable thing under the sun, a travesty on the whole scheme of creation.”
Jack London
“Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.”
James Freeman Clarke
“The best hearts are ever the bravest.”
Laurence Sterne
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“The man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his courage.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.”
Sir P. Sidney
“Physical courage which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained.”
John Stuart Mill
“There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.”
Cato the Elder
“Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.”
Eddie Rickenbacker
“To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.”
Confucius
“Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon
“No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life.”
Cicero
“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.”
Sir P. Sidney
“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
“A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want of a little courage.”
Sydney Smith
“The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.”
Ovid
“Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
“Courage in danger is half the battle.”
Plautus
“Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage.”
Sir P. Sidney
“The bravery founded on hope of recompense, fear of punishment, experience of success, on rage, or on ignorance of danger, is but common bravery, and does not deserve the name. True bravery proposes a just end; measures the dangers, and meets the result with calmness and unyielding decision.”
Francois de la Noue
“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.”
Rollo May
“Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.”
William R. Alger
“Courage is adversity’s lamp.”
Luc de Clapiers
“So far as man stands for anything, and is productive or originative at all, his entire vital function may be said to have to deal with maybes. Not a victory is gained, not a deed of faithfulness or courage is done, except upon a maybe; not a service, not a sally of generosity, not a scientific exploration or experiment or textbook, that may not be a mistake. It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”
William James
“O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,
And let no warrior in the heat of fight
Do what may bring him shame in others’ eyes;
For more of those who shrink from shame are safe
Than fall in battle, while with those who flee
Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.”
Homer
“Remember now, when you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild, agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but, at the same time, as polished, as your sword.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“God holds with the strong.”
Giuseppe Mazzini
“It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.”
Miguel de Cervantes
“He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go on and increase in valor, O boy! This is the path to immortality.”
Virgil
“Man is loved mainly because of two virtues: courage first, loyalty second.”
Gaius Lucilius
“A coward flees backward, away from new things. A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.”
Jacques Maritain
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
Cicero
“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”
Miguel de Cervantes
“Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.”
Duke of Wellington
“The boldest measures are the safest.”
Horatio Nelson
“Tell a man that he is brave, and you help him become so.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”
Plutarch
“When the will defies fear, when the heart applauds the brain, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — this is heroism.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“He holds no parley with unmanly fears,
Where duty bids he confident steers,
Faces a thousand dangers at her call,
And, trusting in his God, surmounts them all.”
Wiliam Cowper
“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle — the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.”
Douglas MacArthur
“The scars you acquire by exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.”
Giovanni Battista Cima
“Knowledge without courage is sterile.”
Baltasar Gracián
“To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.”
Coventry Patmore
“Oh fear not in a world like this
And thou shalt know ere long
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
Maya Angelou
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
Baltasar Gracian
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
John A. Shedd
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
Napoléon Bonaparte
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit.”
-John Greenleaf Whittier
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
J.K. Rowling
“The best way out is always through.”
Robert Frost
“Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
Unknown
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
William Faulkner
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
E.E. Cummings
“If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?”
Les Brown
“To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.”
Peter McWilliams
“Trust the still, small voice that says, “this might work and I’ll try it.”
Diane Mariechild
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
Steve Jobs
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
R. G. Ingersoll
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
James Stephens
“Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.”
Orison Swett Marden
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
Unknown
“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
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
Sarah Dessen
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
Zig Ziglar
“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.”
Unknown
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Marie Curie
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”
Alex Karras
“It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
Ann Landers
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Coco Chanel
“Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.”
Erica Jong
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Where your fear is, there is your task.”
Carl Jung
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Atticus Finch
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
Victor Hugo
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Roy T. Bennett
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
Shannon L. Alder
“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
Mary Tyler Moore
“No one knows what he can do till he tries.”
Publius Syrus
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
Honoré de Balzac
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
Michael J. Fox
“Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be.”
David Goggins
“We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.”
C. JoyBell C.
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
Plato
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don’t just give up.”
Stephen Hawking
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
“Understand: we are all too afraid – of offending people, of stirring up conflict, of standing out from the crowd, of taking bold action.”
Robert Greene
“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”
Thucydides
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
W. Clement Stone
“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”
Osho
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
Brene Brown
“The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.”
Dalai Lama
“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”
E. M. Forster
“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”
Terry Goodkind
“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”
Shannon L. Alder
“Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”
Marianne Williamson
“If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.”
Brené Brown
“Courage is the only virtue you can’t fake.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Winston Churchill
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
Paulo Coelho
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
Lao Tzu
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
Robert Frost
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
Roy T. Bennett
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
Erma Bombeck
“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”
Erica Jong
“Courage means doing what’s right no matter what they say.”
Maxime Lagacé
“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”
Anaïs Nin
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”
Alan Cohen
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
Maya Angelou
“You can choose to let this thing bother you or let this be an adventure and welcome the challenge.”
Fred Rogers
“Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.”
Rosa Parks
“Trying to run away is never the answer to being fully human.”
Pema Chödrön
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
Brené Brown
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”
Dale Carnegie
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
George Sheehan
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
“God’s love calls us to move beyond fear. We ask God for the courage to abandon ourselves unreservedly, so that we might be molded by God’s grace, even as we cannot see where that path may lead us.”
– St. Ignatius Loyola
“The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course in the United States… In that same spirit, we must have the courage – and teach our students the courage – to be bearers to the world of this transforming love, co-creators of a more deeply human world, collaborators with Christ in the building of God’s Kingdom.”
– Peter Hans Kolvenbach
“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”
– Author Unknown
“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.”
– Isaiah 41:10
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
– Muhammad Ali
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou
“Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.”
– 1 Corinthians 16:13
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anais Nin
“But even if you should suffer because of righteousness, blessed are you. Do not be afraid or terrified with fear of them, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts.”
– 1 Peter 3:14-15
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.”
– Matthew 14:27
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
– Babe Ruth
“To have courage for whatever comes in life, everything lies in that.”
– St. Teresa of Avila
“God, grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”
– Admiral Chester Nimitz
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.”
– Sydney Smith
“Let nothing frighten you. Who has God, lacks nothing. God alone is enough.”
– St. Teresa of Avila
“What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“Do not let evil defeat you; instead conquer evil with good.”
– Romans 12:21
“Do not lose your courage because it brings with it a great reward.”
– Hebrews 10:35
“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. the sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
– Dal Carnegie
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
– Author Unknown
“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
– Epicurus
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Pray without ceasing.”
– Thessalonians 5:17
“It takes courage to take action to achieve your goals especially when others doubt.” Catherine Pulsifer
Achievement
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama
Hope
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. Abraham Lincoln
Dare
A soldier’s most powerful weapon is courage. Missing in Action – Star War Quotes
If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. Dalai Lama
Obstacle
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” Maya Angelou
Inspirational Quotes
Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway. Oprah Winfrey
Motivational
Courage is a learned quality, an acquirable set of skills, a practiced competence. Gus Lee, Courage
Learning
One moment of courage can change your day. One day can change your life. And one life can change the world. Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule
Change The World
Courage is universal. It is needed by each of us in every conceivable circumstance. Gus Lee, Courage
Short Inspirational Quotes
It takes courage to be your whole self so you can do your best work so you can be the change you want to see so you can do what your worthy cause most needs you to do. Shelly Francis, The Courage Way
Best
Through untold courage and sacrifice, America’s veterans have secured the liberty which the founding fathers sought to establish here in the new world. Gen. Colin L. Powell
Veterans Day Quotes
It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it. Sue Hadfield, Change One Thing!
Change
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” e. e. cummings
Growing Up
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. Arthur Koestler
Influence
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist
Letting Go
Courage is confidence, and confidence separates individuals who are successful from those people who settled for less in life. T. Morgan
Life Quotes
“It takes courage to step out of one’s comfort zone, because it is a challenge to do so.” D. M. Neddermeyer
Comfort Zone
“Genius is talent set on fire by courage.” Henry VanDyke
Genius
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.” Agnes M. Pharo
Christmas
“When you know the truth about Jesus, it breeds faith, hope, and courage.” Britt Gillette, Coming To Jesus
Jesus Quotes
Trust in ourselves and others gives us the courage and capability to create meaningful and lasting relationships. Sue Patton Thoele
Encouraging
The only way to increase your confidence is to practice certain skills and do whatever it takes to achieve the level of trust and intimacy you want. We all need courage to trust. Cynthia Lynn Wall, The Courage to Trust: A Guide to Building Deep and Lasting Relationships
Confidence
“We must have the courage to let go of the past if we are going to grasp the future.” David DeNotaris
Future
“To build your confidence and courage, take small risks where you have a good chance of succeeding.” Irene Roth
Good
“Real courage requires wisdom.” Carey Kinsolving
Short Positive Quotes
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
Famous Quotes about Life
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.” Scott Turow
Respect
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney
Dream
“As you begin to embrace courage, you will be able to point your life in the direction YOU want it to go as opposed to being directed by others or by your fears.” S. Fullwood
Cute Life Quotes
Nobody in this world has the authority to violate you and your boundaries in any way and you have to muster up the courage to raise an objection. Jeffrey Dawson, Boundaries: Line Between Right And Wrong
Poems about Life
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” William Boetcker
Character
“Finding the courage to write does not involve erasing or ‘conquering’ one’s fears. Working writers aren’t those who have eliminated their anxiety. They are the ones who keep scribbling while their heart races and their stomach churns.” Ralph Keyes
Work
“Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.” Winston Churchill
Inspirational Thoughts
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.” John 14:27 NET
Encouraging Bible Verses
“It is your courage that supports your ability to let go of deadly attitudes, change the way you organize your time, change your relationships and change who and what you are. ” S. Walston
Attitude
“The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.” Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
Beautiful
“All his life he (Winston Churchill) was a man of extraordinary personal courage.” William Manchester, The Last Lion
Famous
“I want everyone to succeed in achieving their dreams. I encourage you to have the courage to seek out everything you want in life.” Danny Yann, The Quest For Success
Encouraging Poems
Courage and openness go hand in hand. Our courage helps us to take the risk to ‘try the new.'” Anne Wilson Schaef
New Start
“We have courage in God’s presence, because we are sure that he hears us if we ask him for anything that is according to his will.” 1 John 5:14 GNT
Encouraging Bible Verses for Depression
“Courage is what it takes to admit when you are wrong.” Michelle C. Ustaszeski
Short Graduation Quotes
“Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears.” Maya Angelou
Quote of the Day
Truth be told, you will never really know just how strong and adamant you are unless adversity strikes. Then you learn courage, you build resilience, you learn to persevere, you build character. T Whitmore, Thinking Positive Daily
Adversity
Courage is not giving up when you feel like everything is going against you.” Catherine Pulsifer
Giving Up
“Courage means standing up for what is right, even when what is right is not popular, and you have to stand alone.” K. Burcham
Quotes to Live By
“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” Ralph W. Sockman
Tolerance
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Decision
It takes a lot of courage to do those things! Any fool can fight back. Anyone can fight back. Anyone can retaliate. Anyone can respond with something mean. God wants you to love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who hurt you, and turn the other cheek.
Rick Warren
Hate
Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear. Abraham Lincoln
Veterans Day Poems
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” Tom Krause
Winning
“Courage is not obtained from a single action but nurtured through a habit of courageous decisions over a lifetime.” M. McCall
Habit
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” Dale Carnegie
Doubt
Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.” Joseph Smith, Jr.
Mountain
“The gaining of self-confidence and courage and the ability to think calmly and clearly while talking to a group is not one-tenth as difficult as most men imagine.” Dale Carnegie, Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking
Imagination
Courage is one step ahead of fear. Coleman Young
Fear
“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.” John F. Kennedy
Opportunity
“When it is nearing the end and you’re in need, muster up your courage; endurance will lead.” Nathan Watson from It Will Come
Perseverance
“For courage to be authentic, one must encounter fear and prove superior to the fear through right action.” Mark Sturgell
Action
“It takes courage to be authentic because you need to trust yourself and trust that others will accept you for who you really are.” Andrea Reibmayr, Trust Leadership
Trust
“It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.” Author Unknown
Wise
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill
Listening
“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.” Les Brown
Vision
“To become emotionally mature, children must learn from failure and face the consequences of their poor choices. As parents, we must develop the courage to let it happen.” Jacquie McTaggart
Children
Gumption is courage, resourcefulness, and common sense in harness together. Robert B. O’Connor, Gumptionade
Common Sense
“One of the best things about finally showing courage is that you inspire those around you to do the same.” Olivia Benjamin, Billy Graham: Graham, 70 Greatest Life Lessons
Inspiring Others
“One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream.” Donna Levine
Dream
“Courageous people will often admit blame and account for, while going over his or her actions and then by using what they have learned from it.” G. Wadel
Accountability
“It takes courage to deal with failures. It takes courage to admit when you are wrong.” R Dooley
Failure
But the steps that call for courage, and the task that’s hard to do,
In the end results in glory for the never-wavering few.
Author Unknown, The Few Graduation Poems
“So take courage! For I believe God. It will be just as he said.” Acts 27:25 NLT
Believe
“To me, courage is not a specific set of skills that can be taught. Courage instead is the combined elements of the human condition. These combined elements are composed of caring, compassion, service, kindness, and love.” Byron Pulsifer, Uplifting Troubles
Kindness
“See yourself as being successful with every interaction that you will participate in, as it will give you the courage to push through with it. Never visualize failure!” Mia Conrad, Social Anxiety: Overcome Social Anxiety And Shyness!
Successful
“While everyone that strives to succeed, everyone that has the courage to leave their comfort zone, everyone that is willing to try to make a positive impact on some corner of the world will face difficulties and hardships along the way, those who are driven by authentic passion will persevere and will not allow the unavoidable obstacles to become insurmountable barriers.” Dennis Houchin, The Passion Principles
Hardship
“To be successful we must do things that unsuccessful people do not want to do. Those things require levels of courage.” R Harpe
Success Quotes
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage. Cynthia Ozick
Funny Quotes
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Positive
“There are some situations where all you can do is simply let go and move on, gather your courage and choose a direction that carries you toward a new dawn.” Author Unknown
Believe In Yourself
It takes self-confidence to gain the courage to move on after you learn from your mistakes. David A. Hunter, Positive Thinking: How to be Positive by Eliminating Negativity
Mistake
. . . I have come to see that there’s a common denominator among organizations that manage to outcomes successfully: They all have courageous leaders who foster a performance culture. Mario Morino, Leap of Reason
Leadership
When we enter into intimate communion with God, He converts hate into love, anger into peace, and fear into courage. Sammy Tippit, The Approaching Darkness
Love
Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. Brené Brown, Daring Greatly
Compassion
I’ve learned that a rising tide of anxiety isn’t necessarily bad. It’s a sign that I’m getting serious. Nervousness keeps me alert. … Getting there isn’t always pleasant. Neither is running in a marathon. Or staging a play. Or climbing a mountain. All such activities take courage. And all reward those who complete them not only with an unparalleled feeling of achievement but with a thrilling sense of adventure along the way. Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write
Stress
In the end, it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go for what you truly want out of your life, your career, and your relationships. Tap into the courage that lies within you and let today be the first day of your amazing journey to success. Honoree Corder, Vision to Reality
Quotes about New Beginnings
Think of each failure, each heartache, and each loss in your life as a lesson in courage and resilience. Kate Anderson, 100 Positive Morning Thoughts
Life Lessons
… it takes courage to grieve. It takes courage to feel our pain and to face the unfamiliar. It also takes courage to grieve in a society that mistakenly values restraint, where we risk the rejection of others by being open or different. Judy Tatelbaum, The Courage to Grieve
Grief
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. Anne Frank
Passion
There are a few secrets to success: courage, goal setting, and focus. Dr. Rob Bell; Bill Parisi, Don’t “Should” On Your Kids
Goals
Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection. Brené Brown, Daring Greatly
Purpose
Patience is the real badge of courage; it is equally the mark of love. Eknath Easwaran, Patience: A Little Book of Inner Strength
Patience
You should be courageous because God has not given you a spirit of fear. Wayne A. Mack, Courage: Fighting Fear with Fear
Spiritual