361 quotes
“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for and the courage to heal from”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
— Rosa Parks
“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
— Nelson Mandela
“One who would pick the roses must not fear the thorns.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want communicate with others as clearly as you can”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“To be an artist means never to avert ones eyes”
— Akira Kurosawa
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Unknown
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again”
— Maya Angelou
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
— Aristotle
“Creativity takes courage to express what is within”
— Henri Matisse
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
— Plato
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage”
— Anais Nin
“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen.”
— Francis Philip Frangipane
“If you are going through hell keep going.”
— Winston Churchill
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Nothing in family 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
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them.”
— Francis de Sales
“To create ones own world takes courage and time is the canvas”
— Georgia O Keeffe
“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”
— Aberjhani
“To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— William Faulkner
“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.”
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else”
— Clarence Darrow
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
— Voltaire
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Emerson
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
— Pema Chodron
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“If you feel an impulse to pursue some passion, do not shrink from it; great things have been done by those who had the courage to begin.”
— Hafez
“The only true failure is not to try.”
— George Clooney
“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
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I believe that what we regret most are our failures of courage whether it is the courage to be kinder to show up to say how we feel to set boundaries to be good to ourselves”
— Brene Brown
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
— Seneca
“He that is down needs fear no fall.”
— John Bunyan
“Do one thing every day that scares you”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
— William Shakespeare
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity”
— Rollo May
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor”
— Desmond Tutu
“Nil desperandum — Never despair.”
— Horace
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
— Thucydides
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
— Rumi
“Anxiety arises not because of a lack of preparation but because courage is needed.”
— Anonymous
“Where there is hope there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
— Anne Frank
“The deeper our faith the more doubt we must endure and the more courage we need to keep moving forward”
— Parker Palmer
“The greatest courage is to keep going.”
“If you are going through hell keep going”
“When you see something that is not right not fair not just you have to speak up you have to do something”
— John Lewis
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
“Do not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
“He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well.”
— B. C. Forbes
“Brilliant thinking is rare but courage is in even shorter supply than genius”
— Peter Thiel
“Change begins with enduring discomfort.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“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.”
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something”
— Seth Godin
“Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.”
— George Sewell
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear and faith provides the strongest material”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
— Ambrose Redmoon
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it”
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— Christopher Columbus
“Do not follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”
— Socrates
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
— Seneca the Younger
“Joy comes to us in moments. We must not be afraid to live in these moments.”
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding yourself in the ranks of the insane”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen.”
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
— W.E.B. Du Bois
“Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.”
— Wim Wenders
“It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena”
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
— Walt Disney
“An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer.”
— Chabrias
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do.”
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
“A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky”
— Crazy Horse
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo
“It takes courage to develop compassion in a world that often rewards indifference”
— Matthieu Ricard
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”
— Dale Carnegie
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves”
— Angeles Arrien
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
— Coco Chanel
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
— Muhammad Ali
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise”
— Tacitus
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
— Raymond Lindquist
“The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage”
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
— Jack Canfield
“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”
— Winston S. Churchill
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
— Erich Fromm
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
“Today's small courage becomes tomorrow's great opportunity.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.”
“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.”
— Jean Paul Richter
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing its having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome”
“I think we all have empathy but we may not all have enough courage to display it through compassion”
— Mary Angelou
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen with compassion for our imperfections”
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John A. Shedd
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage and to live with faith multiplies that courage immeasurably”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
— Steve Jobs
“I have learned over the years that when ones mind is made up this diminishes fear”
“Who is the brave man — he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a word. The brave man is he who looks fear in the face and overcomes it.”
— Nachman of Breslov
“Freedom comes from courage.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”
— Epicurus
“He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.”
— Herman Melville
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
— George Addair
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
— Mark Twain
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing. It is having the courage to show up when you cannot control the outcome.”
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
“From caring comes courage and from compassion comes strength to face any challenge”
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“To see what is right and not do it is the want of courage.”
— Confucius
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
“Courage is not the absence of despair it is rather the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair”
“Fear is just a monster in imagination.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
— Alexander the Great
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.”
— Paul Tillich
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage through compassion”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with wonder and courage”
“In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”
“Necessity does the work of courage.”
— George Eliot
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— Andre Gide
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage truth and courage are not always comfortable but they are never weakness”
“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country, is the jewel of the kingdom.”
— Sun Tzu
“The soul that has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me find peace in courage.”
“An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage of compassion”
— Ani Pema Chodron
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is remaining ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
— James Russell Lowell
“Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honour.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.”
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
“Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger.”
— Phillips Brooks
“You cant get to courage without walking through vulnerability.”
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them”
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated”
— Ted Hughes
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
— Henrik Ibsen
“Courage does not always roar sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow”
“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”
— Mother Teresa
“You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”
“Challenge is always stronger than fear.”
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“When the world says 'give up,' hope whispers 'try it one more time.'”
“Do not be ashamed to need help. You have a duty to fulfill just as a soldier on the wall of battle.”
— Wendell Berry
“History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again and that facing is healing”
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
— Madonna
“Creativity takes courage. There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
“Fortune favors the bold.”
— Virgil
“Creativity takes courage.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.”
“Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“Fortune favors the brave, and abandons the cowardly.”
— Pliny the Elder
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“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.”
“Fortune favours the brave.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear courage is fear walking”
— Susan David
“May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire that disturbs you when you have settled for something safe”
— John ODonohue
“Have the courage to use your own understanding.”
— Immanuel Kant
“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”
“Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.”
“When you have come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly.”
— Patrick Overton
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage”
“Creativity is always a leap of faith you face a blank page”
— Julia Cameron
“You cannot get to courage without walking through vulnerability and faith is what carries you through”
“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love and who find peace in doing so.”
— Ovid
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
— Miles Davis
“The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage and faith multiplies both”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”
“Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.”
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing it is having the courage to show up when you cannot control the outcome”
“He who is brave is free.”
“At the deepest level the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source and what is really healing is courage”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.”
“To create ones own world takes courage”
“Going differently from others is not wrong.”
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
“Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts”
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“He who would be a creator must first be a destroyer of established values.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“Mercy and compassion are not weakness but the highest form of strength.”
— Khalil Gibran
“We can do hard things”
— Glennon Doyle
“Whoever fears God has nothing else to fear.”
“Have enough courage to trust compassion one more time and always one more time”
“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”
— Plutarch
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity.”
“I will either find a way or make one.”
— Hannibal Barca
“Say yes and figure it out afterwards.”
— Tina Fey
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another mans fear”
— Umberto Eco
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”
— Jonas Salk
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“If you can dream it you can do it. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them creatively.”
“Hopeful determination is not the privilege of the strong alone; it is the weapon of the weakest.”
“Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.”
— Friedrich Schiller
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.”
— Harvey Fierstein
“Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most. But true peace requires both.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. Creativity is that courage made visible.”
— E.E. Cummings
“Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.”
— Mooji
“Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear”
“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”
— Cleanthes
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing it is having the courage to show up”
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“The soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“Every great family dream begins with a dreamer who dares to believe.”
— Harriet Tubman
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”
— Warsan Shire
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
— Audre Lorde
“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life, knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
“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.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear it is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it”
— Osho
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that family things are difficult.”
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
— Francis of Assisi
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them the reward for our courage is that the sharp edges become smooth”
“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
“To create one's own world takes courage.”
— Georgia O'Keeffe
“May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.”
“The opposite of courage is not cowardice it is conformity and the absence of compassion”
“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”
“The secret to happiness and peace is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage.”
“The love of family in all its forms is really about one thing: finding the courage to meet life.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
“Creativity takes courage”
“Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it and faith gave me that triumph”
“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
— Mary Shelley
“He who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.”
— Anne Bronte
“To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.”
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
— Erica Jong
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself aloud”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.”
“When you find your path you must not be afraid you need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”
— Hafiz
“Doubt holds you back, faith moves you forward.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
— Elie Wiesel
“Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.”
— King David
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen”
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