Courage Quotes
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Courage quotes and sayings about courage offer lots of inspiration. After reading them ask yourself, “Do I feel courageous?” Whether you feel it or not, you are a highly courageous person.
Each of these Courage Quotes is speaking directly to you! Give yourself credit for heading out into the world every day and fighting all the battles life seems to present. Most of us go out armed only with the desire to make a difference in a world that often seems to busy to care. I see you as a courageous adventurer with an important mission.
Starting each day with an optimistic attitude takes courage. Trying new thoughts, words and actions takes courage. Laughing and loving and being your unique, authentic self takes courage. Every courage quote in this collection was written to encourage and empower people just like you. You are not alone! Please know we are all operating with some level of fear as our co-pilot. Plug along any way you can. Reach out to like-minded souls. Ask for help. Angels are all around you waiting to lend a hand. Many, many people care about you.
I hope you find comfort in these words and all the quotes that follow. Think of this site as your 24/7 inspiration line. If you need a bit of extra courage (or encouragement) consider a courage coaching session. I see you as overflowing with courage and passion and purpose. If I can help, e-mail: Marta@joyofquotes.com
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Kathia Laszlo Tweet this Quote!
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel Tweet this Quote!
What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.
Rollo May
A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel De Cervantes
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
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
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
It is brave to be involved.
Gwendolyn Brooks Tweet this Quote!
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Harold Wilson Tweet this Quote!
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard Tweet this Quote!
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert Tweet this Quote!
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
Winston Churchill Tweet this Quote!
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain Tweet this Quote!
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler Tweet this Quote!
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney Tweet this Quote!
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker Tweet this Quote!
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill Tweet this Quote!
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway Tweet this Quote!
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Napoleon Bonaparte Tweet this Quote!
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
M. Scott Peck Tweet this Quote!
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon Tweet this Quote!
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
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
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
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball Tweet this Quote!
It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.
Harriet Goldhor Lerner Tweet this Quote!
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings Tweet this Quote!
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson Tweet this Quote!
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anaïs Nin Tweet this Quote!
To be courageous means to be afraid but to go a little step forward anyway.
Beverly Smith Tweet this Quote!
To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.
Ted Koppel Tweet this Quote!
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh Tweet this Quote!
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. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair
You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
Jim Rohn
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