Courage Quotes

I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Stop groveling, stop whining and start working!

~ Abhijit Naskar

Many people believe that eliminating the apparent causes of fear will eliminate it, but fear, like beauty, is part of the world. The fear of fear results in the growth of terror as well as a loss of the beauty and wonder of the world. By fearing fear, we create the room for terror and panic to grow. People become blinded by fear, driven by anxieties, and increasingly ruled by phobias and obsessions. When we fail to recognize how fear works in the world, we become ruled by it. The point is not to become paralyzed with foreboding or be caught in the panic that can grip the collective and cause people to run blindly in the wrong direction. The point is to willingly go where most fear to go, to follow where the fear might lead and face the ways that the world roars at us.

~ Michael Meade

The older you grow, the younger your fears grow!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

~ Luigina Sgarro

In my work with hundreds of women over the past few years a theme has emerged: women’s desperate, unquenchable desire to step into their power, countered by the fear of what will happen if they do. The longing to express the riches inside them, wrestling with the deep terror of being burned by the judgement, hatred or rejection of strangers or loved ones if they do. This fear of being burned is an oddly female one. It is a fear which keeps us small and scared… but seemingly safe. From the outside this can seem like an overreaction. Both the need, and the fear. But women, it seems, have an innate knowing of what it means to burn… and be burned. They know the dangers in their bones. And it makes them wary.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

Creativity takes courage. Not just once, but consistently. Without courage we cannot be creative. Without feeling fear at some point we will not reach our creative potential. From first putting paint on paper through to selling our work on a worldwide stage there is plenty to be scared of. But this is where creativity lives – on the edge of our comfort zones.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we’re going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that line or the other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

~ Martina Boone

Fear is acceptable, as long as I don't allow it to cripple me...

~ K.m. Shea

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

One thing that is guaranteed not to work. Doing Nothing. A goldmine when you realise it. Don't be paralysed by analysis. Don't be paralysed by fear. The one thing that is guaranteed not to work. Doing nothing achieves nothing.

~ Tony Curl

The truth is that you are afraid.''Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Insecurity is the lack of trust in your abilities and worth. When you enter into a secured state of consciousness, everything that helped boost your confidence will return.

~ Itohan Eghide

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

~ Alexander The Great

One challenge at a time, I try to turn into the face of fear and tell it “you are not my master, you are the product of my self and I am your master.” I look into the monster’s eyes until it disappears. Then I am free.

~ Rohvannyn Shaw

One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wings to the stories you had wanted to tell; some you didn't even know were in you. In that instant, something about you changes. You are born again.

~ K.j. Kilton

All men have their FEARS. But those who face their fears with FAITH have COURAGE as well.

~ Thomas S. Monson

You don’t know anything about me.”“No, I know not everything about you. But I sense enough to know you have mistaken obsession with drive, guilt with injustice. I know you want to escape what you are, cabbage fairy,” he said, reaching for his hood and gloves and tucking them into the waistband of his trousers. “Your desires are no different from my own, I simply have the courage to face them.

~ F.d. Lee

Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you’re going to get knocked down again.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly.

~ Dean F. Wilson

I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.

~ Sarah Perry

To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try.

~ Rob Liano

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.

~ Meg Cabot

Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength.

~ Gwenda Bond

Be inspired; you have seen another day! Smile; you have another chance! Take a step; you can do it again! Move; you can't continue like this! Do something for that is all life is about! Impact makers take steps. Impact makers face challenges. Impact makers overcome challenges. Each day is a new day to have a different view of the real purpose why we live. Each day is another chance to take a step towards a great end. Each day is another day to choose courage or fear! Each day is another moment of time to dare tactically or to do anything! When you wake up, do something! Smile, you have seen another day! Be happy and make each day count!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you've been given eternal life. 'Whom or what shall you fear?' To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.

~ Criss Jami

Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Fear is like an illusion of a dangerous wall between you and your goal.

~ Miao Potirutch

Destroy thefear in youbefore thefear destroysthe lifebefore you.

~ Robert M. Drake

Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Do what you will. I do not fear death.

~ Elizabeth Carlton

Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn’t at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.

~ Russell Hoban

When the whispers of fear and doubt start screaming inside of you, turn up the volume of your courage by focusing on your faith, energizing through example, living to learn, and learning to love and be loved better.

~ Connie Kerbs

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson