Courage Quotes

Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.

~ Sheila M. Burke

Sometimes you’re going to shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces. Either way, it’s okay.

~ Sheila M. Burke

You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to drift left or right of Center sometimes.

~ Sheila M. Burke

The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.

~ Sheila Burke

When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love.

~ Sheila Burke

When I think of Tao, I think of the artist Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques. I can hear him say, “It’s your tree, you can make it look any way you want to.

~ Sheila Burke

There is nothing in the world that I cannot achieve when I have the courage to believe.

~ Chiara Gizzi

The war going on within you is a reflection of every war that has ever taken place… past, present, and future. Each individual is a Spiritual Warrior and there is only one demon you must conquer…your SELF. You are the devil and you are the savior. You are a human with free will, and every morning you wake up and you make a choice.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

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

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

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

~ Emma Donoghue

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

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

~ Frederick Buechner

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

~ Audre Lorde

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

~ Paulo Coelho

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

~ Plato

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

~ Veronica Rossi

Do I dare Disturb the universe?

~ T.s. Eliot

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

~ Mercedes Lackey

I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.

~ Steve Goodier

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

~ Piers Anthony

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

~ Robert A. Heinlein

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

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

~ Umberto Eco

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

~ Dorothy Bernard

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.

~ Robert Fanney

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

~ Frank Herbert

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

~ Garth Nix

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

~ Anne Rice

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so.

~ Aberjhani

If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.

~ Joyce Meyer

I believe that courage is all too often mistakenly seen as the absence of fear. If you descend by rope from a cliff and are not fearful to some degree, you are either crazy or unaware. Courage is seeing your fear, in a realistic perspective, defining it, considering alternatives and choosing to function in spite of risks.

~ Leonard Zunin

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

~ Edward Weeks

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.

~ Steve Chandler

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

~ Derrick A. Bell

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

~ Daniel Boone