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
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar Gracian
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin
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
He who is brave is free. Seneca
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. John A. Shedd
Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on it is going on when you don’t have strength. Napoléon Bonaparte
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. R. G. Ingersoll
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
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
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 best way out is always through. Robert Frost
Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. Shannon L. Alder
Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections. Thomas Paine
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 Emerson
Courage only counts when you can count. Suzanne Collins
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
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
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
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. Donald Trump
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth
To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. Peter McWilliams
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. Admiral Horatio Nelson
Trust the still, small voice that says, this might work and I’ll try it. Diane Mariechild
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. Karl von Clausewitz
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
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
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
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. Henri Matisse
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
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. John Wayne
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. R. G. Ingersoll
We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long. Paul Valéry
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. James Stephens
In the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval. Gerald R. Ford
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
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. Picabo Street
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
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it. Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong. Sarah Dessen
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage. Anne Frank
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Marie Curie
We need a backbone, not a wishbone. Joyce Meyer
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. Madeleine L’Engle
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Seneca
I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don’t be afraid if you are afraid, you can’t move forward. Malala Yousafzai
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more manhood to abide by thought out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. Alex Karras
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority. Mahatma Gandhi
It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart. Roy T. Bennett
What we know matters but who we are matters more. Brené Brown
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. Aristotle
