Courage Quotes

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.

~ Nikki Rowe

I miss him for all the things he forgot to see in himself & if im lucky fate will help us rekindle a flame that never got set alight in the first place.

~ Nikki Rowe

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal.

~ Mavis Leno

Love is anything but safe, it's wild and raw and will rip at your heart strings but once you've tasted it for the very first time it becomes like an addiction feeling nostalgia when seperated for another beating heart & before them you question where you called home.

~ Nikki Rowe

My ability is greater than my disability.

~ Nikki Rowe

Men with Honor are not killed by swords, they die of Shame.

~ Alok Jagawat

People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book.

~ Deyth Banger

Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

~ E.m. Forster

True heroism is not reserved solely for men and women in uniform. Heroes come in all genders, shapes, sizes and colors. We thank these world heroes for their sacrifices, courage and acts of valor that have made a difference in the world.

~ James Morris Robinson

But it was women like Rudabeh who planted in my mind the idea of a different kind of woman whose courage is private and personal. Without making any grand claims, without aiming to save humanity or defeat the forces of Satan, these women were engaged in a quiet rebellion, courageous not because it would get them accolades, but because they could not be otherwise. If they were limited and vulnerable, it was an audacious vulnerability, transcending the misogyny of their creator and his times.

~ Azar Nafisi

I could have loved him with everything I had but he wasn't prepared for the depth i provided ~ had I been a woman of weakness I would have stayed, but he lost the chance when he said I wasn't enough that day.

~ Nikki Rowe

I have died at the ripe age of twenty.Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint me.I have died at the mature age of ninety.Smile, for my life was more than satisfying.I have died suddenly—out of the blue.Smile, for I didn't have to fall ill before you.I have died from a long illness.Smile, for I had the chance to say goodbye.I did not want to leave this Earth.But smile, for I am still here among you.Why are you crying?Can you not see I am smiling?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Start with a cry, end with a smile.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You can't force someone to care... You can only come to the realization that if you stay, they'll keep hurting you. I wish you the wisdom and courage to walk away and begin the healing process.

~ Steve Maraboli

And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed.

~ Nikki Rowe

Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

~ Laurence Overmire

Even if you are having a nightmare day during which nothing will go right, never cease looking for the ball. In the end everything will come right, for football is a game that rewards those who show courage.

~ Duncan Edwards

No matter what, I would never let the people who wanted me to break see how much damage they had inflicted.

~ Rachel L. Schade

And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.

~ Nikki Rowe

All those dotted lines were just the parts of the story where she would get on the ground and get her hands dirty with the mess of it all. The mess and the glory of other people’s hearts and heart songs. She would learn it would take grit, and guts, and courage to make a difference. But the world will always need people who care enough to make a difference, so she needed to not miss her casting call.

~ Hannah Brencher

Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.

~ Raif Badawi

Fear of facing the grasp of death changes one's outlook on every little thing.

~ Debbie Ruryk

Running from horrors doesn't help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on.

~ Peter David

If life didn't end,' he said, 'there would be no need for me. To choose love in the face if death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more that it otherwise might have been.

~ Martha Brockenbrough

You go on with your life, because life goes on,” says Isabel. “You see this in anyone who has survived a traumatic situation. My own daughter died, for example.” Her only daughter, Paula Frias, died of porphyria in 1992 at the age of twenty-seven. “At first you think you can’t live with this,” says the author, who just turned sixty-five. “It’s just too much. Then life begins to take over. One morning you wake up and you want to eat chocolate. Or walk in the woods. Or open a bottle of wine. You get back up on your feet.” “When you can, right?” “You have no choice!” Isabel insists. “You cannot let the bullies keep you on the floor! I have been on my knees a thousand times, and I always get up.

~ Mark Matousek

The French have a term for this brazenness: je m’en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

~ Mark Matousek

Feel compassion for your own heart that was broken open by grief or confusion.Then tune in to the other level of that experience. Some part of you was heroic inside that moment of your life.Some part of you was looking out for you, wanting you to make it through, encouraging you to love and heal and be larger than the message you were getting. Access the hero inside your own story....

~ Laurie Perez

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

~ Jan-Philipp Sendker

We were never meant for a wimpy life.

~ Annie F. Downs

Compassion for oneself requires a willingness to step OUTside your own story and see it with loving eyes, the courage to recognize truth and follow new leads, the wish for your own heart to heal and the intention to add a vibrant rhythm to enhance the greater dance around you as you begin to join in.

~ Laurie Perez

Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling.But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.

~ Mark Batterson

Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?

~ Nikki Rowe

Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone.

~ Dilip Bathija

Surviving isn't around us, but in us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Show up, shine and do the damn thing!

~ Catrice M. Jackson

It takes enormous courage and humility to be open to others to find out who we really are.

~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

You may be biggest coward & looser of the world if you can't even ask for the things that you need the MOST & want it anyway.

~ Ridhdhesh Jivawala

Rise from the ashes and become the phoenix. Let your glory and wisdom keep blazing on forever. This is your chance. This is your time. Remake your life into something truly spectacular.

~ Dilip Bathija

We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission, a boat stays afloat until the water gets in.

~ Joyce Rachelle