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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Inspirational Courage Quotes
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
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar Gracian
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
The best way out is always through. Robert Frost
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. R. G. Ingersoll
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. John A. Shedd
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
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. Napoléon Bonaparte
Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Unknown
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
Remember that failure is an event, not a person. Unknown
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. J.K. Rowling
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus, Roman historian
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections. Thomas Paine
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. Seneca
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. Ralph Waldo EmersonBravery 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
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. Eddie Rickenbacker
Fight hard when you are down; die hard-determine at least to do-and you won’t die at all. James H. West
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E. Cummings
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
If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there? Les Brown
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. Donald Trump
Famous Courage Quotes
To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. Peter McWilliams
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth
Trust the still, small voice that says, this might work and I’ll try it. Diane Mariechild
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. Christopher Reeve
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. Admiral Horatio Nelson
[Admiral Nelson’s counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away.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
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs
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
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis
If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
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
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. Henri Matisse
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not the absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. James Stephens
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. Orison Swett Marden
Courage is being scared to death-but saddling up anyway. John Wayne
Begin it now. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Unknown
