Courage Quotes

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

~ Brené Brown

You have intellect, and courage, and command. Play your own game, and don't worry about what anyone else is doing. That is what's going to give you a shot at making it. Comparing yourself to anyone else will just drive you crazy.

~ Ellen Emerson White

False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.

~ Ymatruz

The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.

~ Cecelia Ahern

It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It’s not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it’s eminently possible.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.

~ Sharon Salzberg

If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

A person who finds grace never lacks the courage to endure, remain resolute in principles and action in the face of an easy collapse into anger, insanity, and self-destruction when living in an increasing chaotic world filled with armed conflict, terrorism, and cultural discord.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

~ Sarojini Naidu

It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal

~ Sunday Adelaja

In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

~ Seth Adam Smith

You cannot defeat darkness by running from it.

~ Seth Adam Smith

The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.

~ Nikki Rowe

An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.

~ Bianca Sparacino

Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is easy to die,' replied the bannik. 'Harder to live.

~ Katherine Arden

A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to face our illusions and live a true life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I can't live a lie. I can't run from my life.

~ Melita Tessy

Grace represents the sublime glamour of human souls, the ability of physically courageous and emotionally brave people to give part of them in order to protect other people regardless of adverse consequence that they might personally endure.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

And then I realized you were not rebellious but courageous. You know what that means? It means being scared but doing it anyway.

~ Marilyn Hilton

It's okay to feel bad about how things went down, but it's not okay to drown in guilt and regret every day for having made decisions other people don't agree with. At some point, we all have to man up and decide to do what we have to do, despite the people around us who try to get in the way.

~ M-E Girard

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.

~ John Irving

It takes courage and resilience to be true to ourself. We have to know that we will be okay even if others reject or ridicule us. We have to know it won’t destroy us.

~ Jeanine Joy

It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.

~ Gregory David Roberts

My mom's like me and she doesn't want to look weak in front of other people. And she's like Colby in the way that she has to take hits at other people whenever she feels threatened. That used to make me want to cave and do what she wants. But it doesn't anymore.

~ M-E Girard

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.

~ Veronica Purcell

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

~ Julian Assange

It’s a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruelty is at the root of life. And the reason why I have only given my attention to the heroic or the beautiful or the intelligent is because I won’t accept that injustice and the cruelty, and so won’t accept the small endurance that is bigger than anything.

~ Doris Lessing

they told her, “fear the reaper.she laughed to herself and muttered, 'baby, death ain’t nothing’ more than a quick fuck. a little bit of silence after he comes.

~ Taylor Rhodes

You must accept your cross, if you bear it courageously it will carry you to heaven.

~ John Vianney

If you have the understanding to first notice the signs, continue with the courage to follow them.

~ Nikki Rowe

It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.

~ Nikki Rowe

One day we will all stand alone and answer to God for the choices we have made in our lives. It will not be enough to say we did not get help because no one would come with us. Life is not easy, but we make it much more difficult when we refuse to be honest about what we feel. For the short term, not being honest may seem easier, but in the long haul, we pay a heavy price.

~ Sheila Walsh

...he possessed for attractive form of courage: bravery of a nervous man. After all, any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life or hasn't the wit to appreciate the danger. But to understand the risks, perhaps even to flinch at first, but then summon the strength to face them down--that is my opinion is the most commendable for of value...

~ Robert Harris

May you find courage in every circumstance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita