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Quotes about Courage - Quotes on Courage

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

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Courage Quotes and Sayings

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

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Courage is contagious.
When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

 

Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.
It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
- Arthur Ashe

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Quotes about Courage

It is curious -
curious that physical courage should be so common in the world,
and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

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 is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Quotes on Courage

Affirmation: I Act with Bold Courage -
Taking inspiration from the powerful vision of my future,
I boldly set sail with courage and intent.
I hold my course with focused attention and relentless commitment,
as I weather the storms of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
– Joseph Campbell

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anaïs Nin

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all --
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack

Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bravery Quotes

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
- Omar Bradley

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
- Franklin P. Jones

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
- Indira Gandhi

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom.
No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.
Fill your lives with love and bravery,
and you shall lead a life uncommon.
- Jewel

Love ... really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
- Erica Jong

You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
- Seneca


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