Courage Quotes

When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

~ Audre Lorde

You can cower,” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I will stand.

~ Gwenn Wright

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

~ Jeanette Winterson

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

~ Cus D'amato

You want to live?Yes!Then quit thinking you're gonna die!

~ Laurel Dewey

If you take a hard look at the people in your life, you may be blown away by how many explorers and survivalists surround you. Everyday, I'm amazed by the number of people I meet, who have climbed Mt. Everest, time and time again...without ever having been to the Himalayas.

~ José N. Harris

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.

~ Sherwood Anderson

It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her...

~ Sarah Cross

It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

~ John Connolly

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

~ Jim George

Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?Read more in A Daughter's Worth Novel

~ Michelle Carithers

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

~ Nora Roberts

How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?

~ Michelle Carithers

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

~ Brandi L. Bates

Courage is meant to be strong, while fear is meant to be broken

~ Zoe Rosenberg

Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?

~ Michelle Carithers

Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.

~ C.j. Redwine

When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up

~ Richmond Akhigbe

Trolls must continually feed their bottomless need, so be strong and patiently wait out their fires of hatred for eventually they eat their own.

~ L.m. Fields

Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.

~ Anthony Liccione

Since God is with you and you are with God, you have nothing to fear!

~ Jim George

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I am doing what is right and from my heart against all odds.

~ Karen Todd Scarpulla

If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life.

~ Shane Rainey

I am not powerless.

~ Ky Grabowski

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

~ André Gide

The greatest battle you must undertake, the foremost battle you must wage, the most important battle that there is, is the battle of courage versus fear – and there can be only one victor – that victor must be you and courage, or it shall be the dark side and death.

~ Kevin Michel

Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

~ Naoyuki Ochiai

My strength was returning as we went on. It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself-courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace- and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.

~ Patrick Carman

That’s exactly what I’ll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I’m going to ask BigBrother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there’sobviously nobody looking out for me. I’ll just have to find my own way.

~ Adeline Yen Mah

I might not be physically strong.But I do believe that to survive, I need to be strong-willed.Which is more important in life?

~ Michelle Horst

The worst disability in life is a bad attitude.

~ Supanova Slom

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it.You can call love to you, directly from the original stream of consciousness, anytime you feel weak or fearful, and you will be given strength and courage.You can call love to you, directly from the original stream of consciousness, anytime you feel sad or alone, and you will feel embraced and comforted.Call love to you if you feel vulnerable. Feel its purity come to you from the universe and flow round you like a miraculous mother cradling its innocent child.Breathe love in. Say to yourself as you breathe deeply “I love. I am loved.” Say it over and over as you breathe it into yourself and out to the universe, until you really feel and believe that you ARE LOVE.Feel love pour into your lungs as you breathe. Feel it circulate round your body to fill every organ, every limb, and every cell. Vibrate with its radiance, and share it.

~ Jay Woodman

The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.

~ Rivera Sun

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

~ Marilynne Robinson

I wish I would have been there for you.” He finally found his voice. “I wish I would have been there to beat up all the children who bullied you, to shoot your father dead the first time he broke one of your bones. I wish I would have been there to sweep you out of town and save you from the horrors you went through.”Her eyes widened in surprise and then immediately narrowed as she shook her head. “I didn’t need to have a hero in my life, Mark. I needed to figure out how to be my own hero. I took the easy way out. I allowed small-town people to label me and then I did my very best to live up to the label they’d provided. It’s taken me thirty-seven years to realize I don’t need a hero. I’m all I need and I’m strong enough to build the rest of my life alone.

~ Carla Cassidy

Take down the walls.

~ Lauren Oliver

No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love and faith are among them. They are not like material presents we unwrap and hold in our hands. We can’t see these gifts with our eyes. But they are real and powerful. When we open ourselves to them, they can enrich every aspect of our lives. They can help us transform challenges into opportunities and tragedies into triumphs. They can help us make a difference in the world.

~ Charlene Costanzo

But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

~ Charlene Costanzo

One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!

~ Shannon L. Alder