Quotes About Courage to Inspire You to New Heights
Welcome to our collection of quotes and shareable quote pictures on courage. Call it courage or bravery or valor or overcoming fear or simply FULLY living - it represents something very important to being human - to truly living our lives. We hope you ponder these quotes and that they inspire and please you. If they do, please share widely, that others might be inspired too.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
Whatever you do, you need courage.
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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. 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.
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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.
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.
The world needs courage and conscience that can penetrate into the darkest mysteries and secrets of the universe.
Live as a messiah or not at all -- a messiah of compassion -- a messiah of courage -- a messiah of conscience.
Victorious you are and victorious you will be, as long as in your psyche you can see yourself as victorious.
When you feel like giving up, like calling it quits, just try one more time -- do that little bit more.
It is totally unproductive to think the world has been unfair to you. Every tough stretch is an opportunity.
Often there's a secret courage hidden in the pocket of our deepest fears saying, Bring it on, motherfucker.
Don't limit expectations of yourself and settle for anything less than what you are truly capable of achieving.
Be courageous! Never fear to share your knowledge and wisdom with others. It will help you to be wiser.
God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It's from somewhere else!
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
Remember: everything hard will be painful, but just because there is pain doesn't mean you have to suffer.
We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation.
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
Trying to run away is never the answer to being fully human.
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Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
