Courage Quotes

Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare!

~ Manuela George-Izunwa

In these last days, what the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.

~ Larry R. Lawrence

What you call pride, I call courage.

~ Jeff Zentner

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can't live in your mind and expect those dreams to become real, without the work. Reality requires actions that might feel scary, but that is what is required if you want to find true love. Don't expect it to come and rescue you. You have to rescue yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is accepting and neutralizing the fear with the power of love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be captivated by your hearts desire, not distracted by your minds fear.

~ Nikki Rowe

We were not born whole; we were born new, and each life experience coated us with another layer. These layers protected us like armor, but they also covered us to the point where we no longer could feel. That was the balance: to open up to the experiences, to strategically place the layers, but to leave the heart open. The heart had to be sent into the front lines every day, naked, unarmed, willing to take fire. That was the only way to live. With risk. On the cusp of dying.

~ Jennifer Handford

when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

The miracle of life is self-confidence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I turned to face her. What about fear. Can you outrun it?Only if ye stand still and face it do ye have a chance against fear.

~ April White

To brim with hope, to cultivate just one small kernel of faith, to sport a touch of confidence, and to have one’s innate material embedded with layers of feisty are all that makes for the plucky kind of courage that means anything in the end.

~ Connie Kerbs

True courage is in knowing that there is nothing to scare you.

~ Debasish Mridha

Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

~ A.d. Posey

So long as I was pursuing my passion, I would always find courage. I would be restored. My history of silence didn’t have to be my future.

~ Jennifer Handford

You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself.

~ Vendela Vida

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

~ Martina Boone

When will you tell him?' 'When I muster the courage or when I'm left with no choice - whichever comes first.

~ Renee Ahdieh

Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.

~ Drew Hayes

Be courageous enough to forgive yourself, never forget to be compassionate to yourself.

~ Debasish Mridha

Do it anyway. Fear will melt away.

~ Debasish Mridha

Don’t desire kindness but desire courage so that you may persist on the right path.

~ Debasish Mridha

A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.

~ Confucius

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

~ Debasish Mridha

You have the courage to take chances.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With courage, always go where you fear to go.

~ Debasish Mridha

With sincerity, courage, & honesty, one can face death, extreme physical pain, & even extreme psychological pain. One can resist persecution from individuals, society, or government. To live in preparation of adversity & finding ways to preserve your core values --this is what it means to learn how to live.

~ Qiu Miaojin

Courage is a strong will.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What await you, golden treasures of risks taken.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Angels come in many forms, but they always bring the same message--wisdom.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you weren't scared,you wouldn't be human,you wouldn't be brave.What do you mean? I ask.If you were fearless,you wouldn'tneed to overcome it.Bravery means being scaredand going forwardanyway, Fia says.That's courage

~ Leza Lowitz

Courage leads you to win battles everyone may lose.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.

~ Abraham Verghese

Love and kindness is the source of courage.

~ Debasish Mridha

Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

~ Leonard Michaels

For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity?

~ Sherry Thomas