Courage Quotes

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say I will be ready when I am perfect because then you will never be ready, rather one must say I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.

~ C. Joybell C.

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

~ Robin Hobb

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

~ Thomas Moore

Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

~ Criss Jami

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

~ Amelia Earhart

Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

~ C. Joybell C.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

~ John A. Shedd

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

~ Victor Hugo

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

~ Harper Lee

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

~ André Gide

Without fear there cannot be courage.

~ Christopher Paolini

Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.

~ Sabaa Tahir

We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams.World-losers and world-forsakers,Upon whom the pale moon gleams;Yet we are the movers and shakers,Of the world forever, it seems.

~ Arthur O'shaughnessy

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

~ Walt Disney Company

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

~ Ernesto Che Guevara

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

~ John Quincy Adams

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!

~ Steve Maraboli

Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action....no matter what.  So you're afraid? Be afraid.  Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

~ Tennessee Williams

‎What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen? No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave.

~ C. Joybell C.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

~ Jean-Luc Godard

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

~ Mira Grant

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

~ Justin Cronin

I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...I've got a theor-Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposesThey've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.And what's with all the carrots-?What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!...or maybe midgets...

~ Joss Whedon

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.

~ Immanuel Kant

Knowledge is power is time is money.

~ Robert Thier

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

~ Albert Camus

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

~ Stefan Molyneux