Courage Quotes - 61 quotes

 The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

- Abraham Lincoln

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 And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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 Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.

- Anaïs Nin

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 Our definitions of bravery have shifted rather dramatically… Now, courage lies in authenticity. Authenticity has not been, until recently, conflated with courage. In fact, authenticity very often cuts directly against the virtue of courage: After all, wallowing in the solipsistic generally involves ignoring the demands of a higher noble goal. But now, our higher virtue isn’t in upholding and defending some standard for civilization at risk to ourselves. Higher virtue lies in finding our personal truths, and then demanding applause from the rest of the world. Heroism lies in forcing the world to bow before our subjective ideas of truth and decency. Or perhaps there’s another possibility. Perhaps the new definition of bravery does serve some higher goal: the goal of tearing down the old definition of the good. True courage lies in personally rejecting old systems of thought and objective truth and in joining with others to demand that all systems of power be brought low. In this fight, the personal is political: Subjectivism isn’t the enemy of courage but a new form of courage, since the final good to be sought is the destruction of truth itself.

- Ben Shapiro

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 If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

- Confucius

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 Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.

- David Gladwell

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 One of our most serious problems is the inferiority complex which people feel when they are not informed and organized. They dare not make a decision on these vital issues. They let other people think for them. They stumble around in the middle of the road to avoid being "controversial" and get hit by the traffic going both ways. To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. It can help to save your soul -- and maybe your country. The days ahead are sobering and challenging and will demand the faith, prayers and loyalty of every American.

- Ezra Taft Benson

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 Being reckless doesn't necessarily mean courage. ~ Lucinda Laverne

- Hugh Pentecost

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 The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

- John F. Kennedy

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 Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

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 Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, (whispering), "I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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 Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

- Micheal Flaherty

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 He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

- Muhammad Ali

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 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

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 There's no courage before the war has begun.

- Rumi

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 Drunkards vaunt their bravery when you speak of war. But in the blaze of battle they scatter like mice.

- Rumi

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 The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. Every day of our lives courage is needed - not just for the momentous events but more often as we make decision or respond to circumstances around us. Said Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.'

- Thomas S. Monson

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 Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.

- Walt Disney

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 Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives.

- Winston Churchill

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 There's a line in the old testament; the fear of god is the begining of wisdom. And I think it's more like that, it's not that I'm courageous, it's that I'm afraid of the right things.
- Jordan Peterson
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 Journey as far outside of your comfort zone as you can possibly go. Evolve so magnificently That you make even butterflies jealous. take risk after risk after risk.

- Amanda Lovelace

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 Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

- Amelia Earhart

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 One man with courage makes a majority.

- Andrew Jackson

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 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Annais Nin

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 Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

- Brené Brown

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 The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

- Corra Harris

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 There is no controlling life. Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado. Dam a stream and it will create a new channel. Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet. Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground. The only safety lies in letting it all in – the wild and the weak; fear, fantasies, failures and success. When loss rips off the doors of the heart, or sadness veils your vision with despair, practice becomes simply bearing the truth. In the choice to let go of your known way of being, the whole world is revealed to your new eyes.

- Danna Faul

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 Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

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 Being numb is to be invisible Asleep to yourself and any kind of promise Choosing to feel nothing is sometimes the best you can do Being afraid is better than being numb But being afraid slowly drains the life right out of you until all that is left is something small Nobody can see in It’s still better than the nothingness Feeling angry is bigger and better than being afraid But being angry is exhausting and scares the chickens But at least you feel you are alive at least something is happening at least it’s a start Even if it spills out at least people know you’re there And somewhere after numb somewhere between the fear and the dread through the fury and the madness A real life begins Courage to move out of the numbness ignoring the sirens, the alarm bells the signposts warning of danger Courage to be scared Courage to grow big enough to hold the rage Courage to forgive Courage to take your life back from the past Claiming This is now This is mine

- Jane O'Shea

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 Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

- Jennifer Lee

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 A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

- John A. Shedd

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 Compassion is the alleviation of suffering Fierce Self Compassion- Protecting, Providing, Motivating Nurturing Self Compassion- Accepting, Loving Strong Back, Soft Front

- Kirsten Neff

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 Always we hope someone else has the answer, some other place will be better, some other time it will all turn out. This is it; no one else has the answer, no other place will be better, and it has already turned out. At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. There is no need to run outside for better seeing. Nor to peer from a window. Rather abide at the center of your being; for the more you leave it, the less you learn. Search your heart and see the way to do is to be.

- Lao-Tzu

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 In loving ourselves, we love the world. For just as fire, rock, and water are all made up of molecules, everything, including you and me, is connected by a small piece of the beginning. Yet, how do we love ourselves? It is as difficult at times as seeing the back of your head. It can be as elusive as it is necessary. I have tried and tripped many times. And I can only say that loving yourself is like feeding a clear bird that no one else can see. You must be still and offer your palmful of secrets like delicate seed. As she eats your secrets, no longer secret, she glows and you lighten, and her voice, which only you can hear, is your voice bereft of plans. And the light through her body will bathe you till you wonder why the gems in your palm were ever fisted. Others will think you crazed to wait on something no one sees. But the clear bird only wants to feed and fly and sing. She only wants light in her belly. And once in a great while, if someone loves you enough, they might see her rise from the nest beneath your fear. In this way, I've learned that loving yourself requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world—our own self-worth. All the great moments of conception—the birth of mountains, of trees, of fish, of prophets, and the truth of relationships that last—all begin where no one can see, and it is our job not to extinguish what is so beautifully begun. For once full of light, everything is safely on its way—not pain-free, but unencumbered—and the air beneath your wings is the same air that trills in my throat, and the empty benches in snow are as much a part of us as the empty figures who slouch on them in spring. When we believe in what no one else can see, we find we are each other. And all moments of living, no matter how difficult, come back into some central point where self and world are one, where light pours in and out at once. And once there, I realize—make real before me—that this moment, whatever it might be, is a fine moment to live and a fine moment to die.

- Mark Nepo

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 I've learned that loving yourself requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world – our own self-worth.

- Mark Nepo

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 Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

- Maya Angelou

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 Everyone can be master of their own fear.

- Mexican Proverb

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 May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

- Nelson Mandela

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 Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

- Pema Chodron

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 Feel the feelings and drop the story.

- Pema Chodron

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 Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

- Pema Chodron

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 As Pema Chodron writes in http://amzn.to/2sg65eR: Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world. We can do this even at the most difficult moments. Everything we see, hear, taste, and smell has the power to strengthen and uplift us. From this point of view, it becomes possible to open your heart to what can feel, at first, like a vulnerability. To let your natural capacity for empathy connect you to both the pain and joy of others, and to trust that this capacity is a blessing, not a liability.

- Pema Chodron

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 Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

- Pema Chodron

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 The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

- Pema Chodron

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 Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But for practitioners or spiritual warriors, people who have a certain hunger to know what is true, feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we are holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we'd rather collapse and back away. They're like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we're stuck. This very moment s the perfect teacher, and lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are. Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We are use to all kinds of escaping - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. There are so many ways that have been dreamed up to entertain us away from the moment.

- Pema Chodron

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 Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

- Proverb

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 She Who Reconciles She who reconciles the ill-matched threads of her life, and weaves them gratefully into a single cloth— it’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall and clears it for a different celebration where the one guest is you. In the softness of evening it’s you she receives. You are the partner of her loneliness, the unspeaking center of her monologues. With each disclosure you encompass more and she stretches beyond what limits her, to hold you.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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 "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

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 Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 So I can't save the world— can't save even myself, can't wrap my arms around every frightened child, can’t foster peace among nations, can’t bring love to all who feel unlovable. So I practice opening my heart right here in this room and being gentle with my insufficiency. I practice walking down the street heart first. And if it is insufficient to share love, I will practice loving anyway. I want to converse about truth, about trust. I want to invite compassion into every interaction. One willing heart can’t stop a war. One willing heart can’t feed all the hungry. And sometimes, daunted by a task too big, I tell myself what’s the use of trying? But today, the invitation is clear: to be ridiculously courageous in love. To open the heart like a lilac in May, knowing freeze is possible and opening anyway. To take love seriously. To give love wildly. To race up to the world as if I were a puppy, adoring and unjaded, stumbling on my own exuberance. To feel the shock of indifference, of anger, of cruelty, of fear, and stay open. To love as if it matters, as if the world depends on it.

- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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 We all move forward when we recognize how resilient and striking the women around us are.

- Rupi Kaur

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 We must not stint our necessary actions, in the fear to cope malicious censurers. Henry VIII ACT 1 SC.2

- Shakespeare

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 He lives in fame that died in virtues cause.

- Shakespeare

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 When life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

- Thomas Browne

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 It Is Not Too Late It is early and about to grow. Now is the time to do what you know you must and have feared to begin. For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

- T.S. Elliot

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 I held my fear by the hand, honored its existence, and thanked it for teaching me that happiness exists beyond the boundaries it creates.

- Yung Pueblo

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 It is okay to not have the answer. One of the bravest things you can do is boldly embrace the unknown, accept your fear, and still continue to move forward. A clear mission does not always have a clear path.

- Yung Pueblo

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 Pick the path that lights you up the one you know deep down is the right choice stop listening to doubt start connecting with courage do not let the idea of normal get in the way it may not be the easy path but you know great things take effort lean into your determination lean into your mission lean into the real you Your intuition will lead you outside your comfort zone so that you can grow

- Yung Pueblo

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 Self love begins with acceptance, a complete acceptance of the history that our mind and body carry, but it does not stop there. Self love is an energy we use for our own personal evolution, it is a meeting and balance of two critically important ideas, one where we love who we currently are and another where we begin our transformation into the ideal version of ourselves. Though these ideas may seem contradictory they are both required for our ultimate success. Without acceptance, our transformation into our happier and freer selves would be highly difficult. Why? Because It is much harder to change and let go of what we hate. Self love is personal evolution in action

- Yung Pueblo

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 Walked Through Fire You have walked through fire survived floods and triumphed over demons remember this the next time you doubt your own power

- Yung Pueblo

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