Courage Quotes

Whenever you hear yourself or others telling you you cannot do something, do that particular something, and notice how quickly everyone shuts the hell up.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Prove yourself and others wrong everyday by redefining who you THINK you are, through performing actions you would normally deem impossible or uncharacteristic of you.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.

~ John C. Wright

Courage lays within easy reach of a child who knows nothing of how easily understanding can unravel, leaving a set of rules that apply to nothing, and an empty heart.

~ Sonja Yoerg

The tears and the pain all but blinding her, she forced open her eyes one more time, to a curtain of dark hair; to a waterfall of black ink spilling across the last page of her life. No. I’m not nothing. I was loved.

~ Renee Ahdieh

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of me centered individuals.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You feed your fears to grow muscles against you when you run away from what frightens you. Little do you know that it’s frightened when you face it boldly!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Let you limitation fuel your determination to work on your strengths.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Courage is the willingness to act in spite of fear.

~ Michael Hyatt

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

~ Millen Livis

Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.

~ Fennel Hudson

We were born to be free, to expand our horizons by going where we have never gone before, and not to hang out in the relative comfort and safety of the nest, the known. There is a place within us that is courageous beyond our human understanding; it yearns to explore beyond the boundaries of our daily life.

~ Dennis Merritt Jones

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

~ Dean Koontz

Courage provides you with two qualities, the capability to begin something and the ability to endure it to the end! Let no one stop you from sparking your life with courage!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

May you find renewed energy, courage and hope to pursue new adventures.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.

~ Dean Koontz

There’s merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself.

~ Fennel Hudson

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

~ Dean Koontz

The Naga laughed softly, 'There's a thin line that separates courage from stupidity.''And that line is only visible in retrospect, my friend. If I'm successful, people will call me brave. If I fail, I will be called foolish. Let ,me do what I think is right. I'll leave the verdict to the future.

~ Amish Tripathi

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...

~ Dean Koontz

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these beliefs as if they were true because we have never identified them clearly enough to question them, to challenge them.

~ Dennis Merritt Jones

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

~ Fennel Hudson

Daring life, optimistic living.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true...We may have defined ourselves in a limiting way based on our history and the opinion of others...and we stay stuck there because we fail to recognize there is a door right in front of us providing another opportunity to redefine who we are today.

~ Dennis Merritt Jones

Do all the work you can, there is enough rest in the grave.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The way to fight fear is to do what you are afraid of. And the way to fight pain is to live with it, with an open heart.

~ Auliq Ice

Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

You'll need courage because polyamorous relationships can be scary. Loving other people without a script is scary. Allowing the people you love to make their own choices without controlling them is scary. The kind of courage we're talking about involves being willing to let go of guarantees - and love and trust your partners anyway.

~ Franklin Veaux

It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.

~ Adi Alsaid

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.

~ Criss Jami

The will to dare, the power to act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A dangerous and treacherous path is only worth it when the desire to have courage outweighs the driving need to get to the other side.

~ Solange Nicole

When you notice yourself desperately trying to think of an excuse to avoid a new experience out of FEAR, ANXIETY or INSECURITY, make the decision to say: sure, I'll do it , and see how your life improves.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

I saw leaving any situation where I was treated with disrespect as evidence of my courage. I wanted my daughters to learn that lesson of worth from me.

~ Carine Mccandless

Never look down upon yourself. You are special with special gift.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you fall, rise up, shake off the dust and try again.

~ Gladys Bejani

Free and fearless courage comes from time spent with Jesus.

~ Katy Kauffman