Courage takes you to success. If you have the courage to do something, you have the courage to bring the continuation of that thing. Inspirational courage quotes will allow you to step in, find your inner bravery and give you strength continue the journey no matter what.
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Courage Quotes
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. ― unknown
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. ― William Faulkner
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. ― John Wayne
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself. ― P. T. Barnum
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. ― Michelle Obama
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ― Coco Chanel
Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway. ― Oprah Winfrey
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. ― Franklin P. Jones
You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both. ― Brené Brown
The best way out is always through. ― Robert Frost
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. ― St. Catherine of Siena
Courage is a learned quality, an acquirable set of skills, a practiced competence. ― Gus Lee, Courage
You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. ― Mary Tyler Moore
Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever. ― Lana Del Rey
A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out. ― Korean Sating
One moment of courage can change your day. One day can change your life. And one life can change the world. ― Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule
Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. ― Joshua 1:7-8
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ― E.E. Cummings
Courage is universal. It is needed by each of us in every conceivable circumstance. ― Gus Lee, Courage
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. ― Steve Jobs
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it. ― William Danforth (1870-1955)
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. ― Maya Angelou
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. ― Paulo Coelho
It takes courage to be your whole self so you can do your best work so you can be the change you want to see so you can do what your worthy cause most needs you to do. ― Shelly Francis, The Courage Way
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ― Muhammad Ali
Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood. ― Charles Swindoll
It is your courage that supports your ability to let go of deadly attitudes, change the way you organize your time, change your relationships and change who and what you are. ― S. Walston
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. ― Baltasar Gracian
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. ― Abraham Lincoln
Through untold courage and sacrifice, America’s veterans have secured the liberty which the founding fathers sought to establish here in the new world. ― Gen. Colin L. Powell
It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it. ― Sue Hadfield, Change One Thing!
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ― R. G. Ingersoll
Courage is the complement of fear. ― Lazarus Long, thanks to D. Housel
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ― Theodore Roosevelt
It takes courage to take action to achieve your goals especially when others doubt. ― Catherine Pulsifer
Cowards die many times before their death. ― William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can’t say it’s three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it’s colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It’s a quality, not a thing. ― Mickey Mantle, The Quality of Courage
Don’t be led around by the nose. ― unknown
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. ― Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I hero
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ― Anais Nin
Faint heart never won fair lady. ― W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ― Unknown
Fight hard when you are down; die hard—determine at least to do—and you won’t die at all. ― James H. West
Finding the courage to write does not involve erasing or ‘conquering’ one’s fears. Working writers aren’t those who have eliminated their anxiety. They are the ones who keep scribbling while their heart races and their stomach churns. ― Ralph Keyes
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ― Arthur Koestler
A soldier’s most powerful weapon is courage. Missing in Action. ― Star War
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ― German Proverb
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,When the funds are low and the debts are high,And you want to smile but you have to sigh,When care is pressing you down a bitRest if you must, but don’t you quit.Success is failure turned inside out,The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,And you can never tell how close you are,It may be near when it seems afar.So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hitIt’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit. ― Unknown
Fear the person who fears you. ― Middle Eastern Saying
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ― Raymond Lindquist
If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. ― Dalai Lama
Courage is confidence, and confidence separates individuals who are successful from those people who settled for less in life. ― T. Morgan
Given a challenge, rise to the occasion. ― unknown
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ― Soren Kierkegaard
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. ― Henry David Thoreau
Have the courage of your convictions. ― unknown
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ― Bertrand Russell
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. ― Donald Trump
Remember that failure is an event, not a person. ― Unknown
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer. ― Norwegian Saying
It takes courage to step out of one’s comfort zone, because it is a challenge to do so. ― D. M. Neddermeyer
If you are afraid of something, you give it power over you. ― Moroccan Saying
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. ― William Boetcker
Genius is talent set on fire by courage. ― Henry VanDyke
It is easy to be brave from a distance. ― Aesop
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ― Seneca
Keep a stiff upper lip. ― Unknown
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ― Agnes M. Pharo
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. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your chin up. ― unknown
Like a fish, one should look for holes in the net. ― Samoan Sayings
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. ― Babe Ruth
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. ― Admiral Horatio Nelson
All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his! – Admiral William Bull Halsey
Trust the still, small voice that says, this might work and I’ll try it. ― Diane Mariechild
When you know the truth about Jesus, it breeds faith, hope, and courage. ― Britt Gillette, Coming To Jesus
One with the courage to laugh is master of the world. ― Italian Saying
Our fears always outnumber our dangers. ― Latin Saying
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ― Winston Churchill
The blind person is not afraid of ghosts. ― Burmese Saying
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, `I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it.If you fail anywhere along the line, it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn By Living (1960)
The brave person regards dying as going home. ― Chinese Saying
The longest journey begins with the first step. ― unknown
Trust in ourselves and others gives us the courage and capability to create meaningful and lasting relationships. ― Sue Patton Thoele
The person afraid of bad luck will never know good. ― Russian Saying
The only way to increase your confidence is to practice certain skills and do whatever it takes to achieve the level of trust and intimacy you want. We all need courage to trust. ― Cynthia Lynn Wall, The Courage to Trust: A Guide to Building Deep and Lasting Relationships
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. ― Karl von Clausewitz
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ― Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
What cannot be cured must be endured. ― Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. ― Tacitus, Roman historian
We must have the courage to let go of the past if we are going to grasp the future. ― David DeNotaris
To build your confidence and courage, take small risks where you have a good chance of succeeding. ― Irene Roth
With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an elephant. ― Tibetan Saying
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections. ― Thomas Paine
Real courage requires wisdom. ― Carey Kinsolving
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ― Swedish
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ― Walt Disney
As you begin to embrace courage, you will be able to point your life in the direction YOU want it to go as opposed to being directed by others or by your fears. ― S. Fullwood
Nobody in this world has the authority to violate you and your boundaries in any way and you have to muster up the courage to raise an objection. ― Jeffrey Dawson, Boundaries: Line Between Right And Wrong
