Courage QuotesCourage quotes and sayings about courage offer lots of inspiration. After reading them ask yourself, “Do I feel courageous?” Whether you feel it or not, you are a highly courageous person. Give yourself credit for heading out into the world every day and fighting all the battles life seems to present. Most of us go out armed only with the desire to make a difference in a world that often seems to busy to care. I see you as a courageous adventurer with an important mission. Starting each day with an optimistic attitude takes courage. Trying new thoughts, words and actions takes courage. Laughing and loving and being your unique, authentic self takes courage. Every courage quote in this collection was written to encourage and empower people just like you. You are not alone! Please know we are all operating with some level of fear as our co-pilot. Plug along any way you can. Reach out to like-minded souls. Ask for help. Angels are all around you waiting to lend a hand. Many, many people care about you. I hope you find comfort in these words and all the quotes that follow. Think of this site as your 24/7 inspiration line. If you need a bit of extra courage (or encouragement) consider a courage coaching session. I see you as overflowing with courage and passion and purpose. If I can help, e-mail: Marta@joyofquotes.com  Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. Maya Angelou My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. Mary Kay Ash I’m not funny. What I am is brave. Lucille Ball Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death. Betty Bender Courage – fear that has said its prayers. Dorothy Bernard There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, How good or how bad am I? That's where courage comes in. Erma Louise Bombeck Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it. Napoleon Bonaparte It is brave to be involved. Gwendolyn Brooks Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. Nicholas Murray Butler Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. Julia Cameron I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no shuch thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell lwants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen. Joseph Campbell Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it. Pablo Casals Courage is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts. Winston Churchill Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. e.e. cummings He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. Miguel De Cervantes All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F. Drucker Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear. Amelia Earhart It is a fact of life that we find ourselves in unpleasant demoralizing situations which we can neither escape nor control. We can keep our morale and spirits high by using both coping and hoping humor. Coping humor laughs at the hopelessness in our situation. It gives us the courage to hang in there, but it does not bring hope. The uniqueness of hoping humor lies in its acceptance of life with all its dichotomies, contradictions, and incongruities. It celebrates the hope in human life. From one comes courage, from the other comes inspiration. Cy Eberhart 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 Love is an act of courage, not of fear. Paolo Freire Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy. Elizabeth Gilbert I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. Elizabeth Gilbert Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. Elizabeth Gilbert Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. Ruth Gordon Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. Billy Graham Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway Strength and courage aren't always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose. Ashley Hodgeson Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To face despair and not give in to it, that’s courage. Ted Koppel Being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while. Harriet Goldhor Lerner Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Maxwell Maltz We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. Maxwell Maltz I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. John C. Maxwell The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Rollo May The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next. Mignon McLaughlin Imagination takes humility, love and great courage. Carson McSullers Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. David S. Muzzey None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart's guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life's true path, but viewing it from a distance. Caroline Myss With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. Keshavan Nair Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anaïs Nin Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives. Sara Paddison I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace. Rosa Parks Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. M. Scott Peck Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. Mary Anne Radmacher Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. Eddie Rickenbacker You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity. Jim Rohn Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger. Eleanor Roosevelt You gain strength, courage, and confidence in every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don’t. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don’t be beaten down by naysayers. Don’t let the odds scare you from even trying. Howard Schultz (CEO Starbucks Coffee) To be courageous means to be afraid but to go a little step forward anyway. Beverly Smith A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. Sydney Smith Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. W. Clement Stone Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway? Barbra Streisand All art requires courage. Anne Tucker To believe yourself to be brave is to be brave; it is the only essential thing. Mark Twain Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. Mark Twain What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent van Gogh Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. Jessamyn West Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death. Harold Wilson Have the courage to follow your passion – and if you don’t know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it. Oprah Winfrey If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together…there is something you must remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart…I'll always be with you. Winnie the Pooh Return from Courage Quotes and Sayings about Courage to Quotes Listed by Subject
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