Courage Quotes

Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge to them and offer to show them the way. But, that doesn't mean your wisdom will be accepted or appreciated.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Active Hope is not wishful thinking. Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued . . . . by some savior. Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world. The web of life is calling us forth at this time. We’ve come a long way and are here to play our part.With Active Hope we realize that there are adventures in store,strengths to discover, and comrades to link arms with.Active Hope is a readiness to discover the strengthsin ourselves and in others;a readiness to discover the reasons for hopeand the occasions for love.A readiness to discover the size and strength of our hearts,our quickness of mind, our steadiness of purpose,our own authority, our love for life,the liveliness of our curiosity,the unsuspected deep well of patience and diligence,the keenness of our senses, and our capacity to lead.None of these can be discovered in an armchair or without risk.

~ Joanna Macy

Loving someone doesn't mean you have to bow down to them or drop everything and run to their relentless calls. They must understand and love you enough to give you the respect that you deserve. Loving someone doesn't mean you have to shower them with gifts all the time. Give them your honesty, hope, joy, and encouragement on a daily basis.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do, so let's do it.

~ Choa Kok Sui

Matsu gathered up what little was left of the food and wrapped it back up in the furoshiki. 'I followed you and the others down to the beach yesterday morning. I wondered if you might try to find your way to peace as she did.''I couldn't,' I began to cry, turning away in shame. Then Matsu leaned over close to my ear. He smelled of sweat and the earth as he whispered, 'It takes greater courage to live.

~ Gail Tsukiyama

Build a solid courage behind what you believe you can do. Your dreams may drift and fall, but when your courage is strong and still, you can’t shift; you’ll lift your dreams again!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Face your monster boldly, the whole world will cheer you on. Run from your monster fearfully, Heaven will cry over your pieces.

~ Jessiqua Wittman

if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The crocodiles that frighten from crossing the rivers of our destinies are easily drowned with personal confidence but not team courage. It means you owe it to yourself to defeat your own crocodiles and cross over to the other side!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Life is a test of courage, It's only worth if you can learn to withstand your most trying times and remain stable, steady, simple and strong in different places and spaces.

~ Auliq Ice

Remember always where the dreaming ends and the being begins. Draw a line for everything you care about and then step over it.

~ Tag Cavello

I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In life, a mile deep with stress is a mile deep in pain and that needs courage.

~ Auliq Ice

The lift is about SPEED and COMFORT, but the stairs are about CERTAINTY! The lift may go wrong but stairs seldom do, you can always take the stairs. They are BOUND to take you UP and to the END as long as you continue to climb!

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind

~ Alexandra Bracken

A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.

~ Ally Carter

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We might be hollow, but we're brave

~ Lorde

The leader must have both – the courage to take the people to a daring destination and the humility to selflessly serve others on the journey.

~ Cheryl A. Bachelder

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

~ Radclyffe Hall

That is what love does, it upstages fear.

~ Mia Hollow

Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength.

~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle---Gods.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

~ Bill Maher

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

~ David Levithan

When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.

~ Anonymous

Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.

~ Auliq Ice

We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions.

~ Auliq Ice

Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes.

~ Auliq Ice

Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of hell.

~ Alfred Tennyson

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. Thraldom, not death, should terrify me.

~ E.r. Eddison

They told me, I am not good enough, not strong enough, not tall enough, not smart enough. They told me I can not win, but they did not tell me how to lose. They taught me a lot of things, but You can not teach courage. That is why I succeed.

~ Csaba Gabor - B

I am not without fear, but courage is taking action despite the fear. Knowing what you want, what you are meant to do, and proceeding despite any knots in your stomach or rocks stuck in your throat. It is walking boldly into the unknown with your chin held high... even if it quivers.

~ Rachel Harris

I feel like people around me are betters voting on the wrong horse in the race. I am that horse, always failing to make others win.

~ Austin Kelly

I felt afraid. No one would know that, not Mother and not Mike. I’d keep the fear pushed down inside of me, and no one would know it was there. “I’m awfully happy,” I wrote. I was. Awfully happy and awfully in love, and tomorrow I was marrying Mike.

~ Benedict Freedman

In hard times nothing is visible life seems to beat you down, with courage hit the problems ball will be in your court.

~ Kishore Bansal

It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start.

~ Auliq Ice