Courage Quotes

May we each find in ourselves the courage we forgot we have, to see the beauty we forgot is inside us, while battling the demons we forgot we can slay, on a battlefield we forgot we can win.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

Try not to compromise. So many people don’t do what they really want in their hearts because they feel like they’re not good enough, or they’re not smart enough, or they’re not talented enough… anything. And that doesn’t matter. In order for you to live a remarkable life — in order for you to live a life that is fulfilling — you need to be able to go after what you want. And if you don’t, you’re not going to achieve it — ever.

~ Debbie Millman

Courage is being who you are.Courage is sacred of thyself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.

~ Nikki Rowe

Never give up.Never give up on your hopes.Never give up on your dreams.Never give up on your visions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all born with a muscle for courage, but our education has wasted it away.

~ Will Jelbert

If I'm afraid to fall then how will I ever fly?

~ Sydney Paige Mccutcheon

Being focused in life is not only knowing what you want, but also how and why.

~ Unarine Ramaru

When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.

~ Heidi Reagan

He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering.... He opened his eyes a moment and they were dark with fear, for only one race was run as yet and there might be many others.... Then his newborn courage came back to him and he accepted his suffering as the price he must pay for the gift of creation that was his. And suffering, he had discovered, could be the gateway to renewal, than which no more glorious experience can be man's on earth.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Here’s a hand to the boy who has courageTo do what he knows to be right;When he falls in the way of temptation,He has a hard battle to fight.Who strives against self and his comradeWill find a most powerful foe.All honor to him if he conquers.A cheer for the boy who says, “No!”There’s many a battle fought dailyThe world knows nothing about;There’s many a brave little soldierWhose strength puts a legion to rout.And he who fights sin singlehandedIs more of a hero, I say,Than he who leads soldiers to battleAnd conquers by arms in the fray.Be steadfast, my boy, when you’re tempted,To do what you know to be right.Stand firm by the colors of manhood,And you will o’ercome in the fight.“The right,” be your battle cry everIn waging the warfare of life,And God, who knows who are the heroes,Will give you the strength for the strife.

~ Phoebe Cary

Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.

~ Criss Jami

I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I wish for you a more difficult life, somewhere in the complicated center, where the courage of your convictions blends with humility and respect for others.

~ Kenneth Patrick Ruscio

Courage comes with action.

~ Gail Blanke

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

~ Donald Miller

Lord, thank you for the courage to live life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.

~ Chris Prentiss

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, My heart resumed its place. Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

~ C. Brian Kelly

Strive toward what you know you must achieve, in confident & courageous manner.

~ Eleesha

Courage, will-power and confidence in your abilities will carry you to greater heights.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to ‘mean’ horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

We keep waiting to be crowned,Waiting for the world to judge us worthy of offering our brightest, most empowered and beautiful stuff. But that won’t happen. Your next certification or ordination or degree will do nothing for your expression in the world until you accept how unspeakably worthy and valuable you already are to be here and share yourself with us.

~ Jacob Nordby

Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.

~ Richie Norton

I did not know the work of mourningIs like carrying a bag of cementUp a mountain at nightThe mountaintop is not in sightBecause there is no mountaintopPoor Sisyphus griefI did not know I would struggleThrough a ragged underbrushWithout an upward path...Look closely and you will seeAlmost everyone carrying bagsOf cement on their shouldersThat’s why it takes courageTo get out of bed in the morningAnd climb into the day.

~ Edward Hirsch

The soul of us is never confused about why it is here.It only asks us to wake up and see the breadcrumb clues it has been leaving all along.It asks us to have courage to face the wounds we have been hiding, allow it to heal them and untangle the heavy, snarled patterns.Because the soul of us has no doubt whatever that it can and, if we allow it to express fully, can live a life of such power and joy through us that our human selves will be astonished.

~ Jacob Nordby

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.

~ The Weeknd

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.

~ Michelle Harrison

We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

~ Enza Vita

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

~ J.m. Ledgard

He says that it’s okay to be fearful. That some of God’s strongest warriors were frightened. The difference between a believer and the rest of the world is that we press on. We can be shaking in our boots, but we don’t turn back.

~ Jenny B. Jones

It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things with a perfect lack of emotional capacity, are easily controlled, and I suddenly realized that’s why the military often trains people to suppress their emotions. Unfortunately for them, humans aren't machines. We feel, we love, we cry, we despair, and we rejoice. Anyone who’s ever tried to convince me not to feel is someone I shouldn’t have trusted. The only reason you should shut off your emotions and emulate a robot is if you're doing horrible things. How fatal my decisions have been. How many people would be loving, rejoicing, and feeling right now rather than crying indefinitely in the depths of the afterlife? If only I’d figured this out sooner.

~ Bruce Crown

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Even when you find yourself alone and in a 'place' where you feel it has no roads, continue to walk and explore; because in the midst of the unknown lay treasures unreachable to those who chose to stay in their comfort Zone.

~ Quetzal

The difference between you and me is that I always forgive you.

~ Anuj Kr. Thakur

Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.

~ Lucas Bale

The innocent curiosity of children gives them astounding courage.

~ Plague Jack

I'm not saying it's going to be easy; I'm saying it's going to be worth it. If it was easy, you would've done it by now

~ B. Dave Walters

Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage.

~ Murad S. Shah

Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living.

~ Annie F. Downs