375 quotes
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing its having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome”
— Brene Brown
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer.”
— Chabrias
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
— Seneca
“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
— Confucius
“Fortune favors the bold.”
— Virgil
“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”
— Plutarch
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage truth and courage are not always comfortable but they are never weakness”
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. Creativity is that courage made visible.”
— E.E. Cummings
“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
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
— James Russell Lowell
“Creativity takes courage. There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
— Henri Matisse
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage and to live with faith multiplies that courage immeasurably”
“When the world says 'give up,' hope whispers 'try it one more time.'”
— Unknown
“You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing. It is having the courage to show up when you cannot control the outcome.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.”
— Nelson Mandela
“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.”
— Maya Angelou
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
“The secret to happiness and peace is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage.”
— Thucydides
“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
“He that is down needs fear no fall.”
— John Bunyan
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
“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.”
“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
“Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts”
— Winston Churchill
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“Fear is just a monster in imagination.”
— Anonymous
“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.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“If you can dream it you can do it. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them creatively.”
— Walt Disney
“The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage.”
“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage and faith multiplies both”
— Lao Tzu
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
— Coco Chanel
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Do not follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
“Freedom comes from courage.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Have the courage to use your own understanding.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.”
“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”
“The only true failure is not to try.”
— George Clooney
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
— Mark Twain
“Doubt holds you back, faith moves you forward.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage”
— Anais Nin
“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
— Rosa Parks
“He who is brave is free.”
“Whoever fears God has nothing else to fear.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
— Ovid
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Where there is hope there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
— Anne Frank
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity”
— Rollo May
“You cant get to courage without walking through vulnerability.”
“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
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else”
— Clarence Darrow
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
— Voltaire
“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
“We can do hard things”
— Glennon Doyle
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity.”
“The deeper our faith the more doubt we must endure and the more courage we need to keep moving forward”
— Parker Palmer
“Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.”
— Mooji
“The soul that has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
“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 opposite of courage is not cowardice it is conformity and the absence of compassion”
“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love and who find peace in doing so.”
“History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again and that facing is healing”
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen.”
“Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger.”
— Phillips Brooks
“History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
— Plato
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
— Aristotle
“Nil desperandum — Never despair.”
— Horace
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”
— Cleanthes
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
— Erich Fromm
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
— Steve Jobs
“The love of family in all its forms is really about one thing: finding the courage to meet life.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
— Henrik Ibsen
“Creativity takes courage.”
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
“May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage through compassion”
“To create ones own world takes courage”
— Georgia O Keeffe
“Every great family dream begins with a dreamer who dares to believe.”
— Harriet Tubman
“The soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear courage is fear walking”
— Susan David
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— William Faulkner
“Creativity takes courage”
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them”
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John A. Shedd
“To create ones own world takes courage and time is the canvas”
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”
“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
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
— Ambrose Redmoon
“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
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.”
— Paul Tillich
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
“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”
“He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.”
— Herman Melville
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“Do not be ashamed to need help. You have a duty to fulfill just as a soldier on the wall of battle.”
— Wendell Berry
“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 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
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for and the courage to heal from”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.”
“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.”
“Going differently from others is not wrong.”
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
— Alexander the Great
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
“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.”
— Victor Hugo
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”
— Dale Carnegie
“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”
— Aberjhani
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
— W.E.B. Du Bois
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”
“Anxiety arises not because of a lack of preparation but because courage is needed.”
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Creativity takes courage to express what is within”
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
— Francis of Assisi
“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.”
— Wim Wenders
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.”
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen with compassion for our imperfections”
“Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want communicate with others as clearly as you can”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“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.”
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
— Muhammad Ali
“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
“Say yes and figure it out afterwards.”
— Tina Fey
“Courage does not always roar sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow”
“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
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something”
— Seth Godin
“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
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Creativity is always a leap of faith you face a blank page”
— Julia Cameron
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“To see what is right and not do it is the want of courage.”
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
— George Addair
“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”
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
— Raymond Lindquist
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
“I will either find a way or make one.”
— Hannibal Barca
“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
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
— Mary Shelley
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves”
— Angeles Arrien
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”
— Paulo Coelho
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it and faith gave me that triumph”
“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
— Desmond Tutu
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
— Miles Davis
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
— Rumi
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.”
“To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.”
“Fortune favours the brave.”
“To be an artist means never to avert ones eyes”
— Akira Kurosawa
“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
“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
“The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage”
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another mans fear”
— Umberto Eco
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
— Madonna
“Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.”
— George Sewell
“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.”
“I think we all have empathy but we may not all have enough courage to display it through compassion”
— Mary Angelou
“Joy comes to us in moments. We must not be afraid to live in these moments.”
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is remaining ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”
“One who would pick the roses must not fear the thorns.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties”
“An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
“To create one's own world takes courage.”
— Georgia O'Keeffe
“Courage is not the absence of fear it is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it”
— Osho
“Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?”
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself aloud”
“Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most. But true peace requires both.”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
— Seneca the Younger
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
“Necessity does the work of courage.”
— George Eliot
“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.”
“You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— Andre Gide
“Do one thing every day that scares you”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor”
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them the reward for our courage is that the sharp edges become smooth”
“Have enough courage to trust compassion one more time and always one more time”
“Do not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
“He who would be a creator must first be a destroyer of established values.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me find peace in courage.”
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
— Jack Canfield
“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
“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.”
— Jean Paul Richter
“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.”
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand.”
— Napoleon Hill
“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.”
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
“You cannot get to courage without walking through vulnerability and faith is what carries you through”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”
— Mother Teresa
“Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”
— Socrates
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”
— Emerson
“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 hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
— William Shakespeare
“If you are going through hell keep going.”
“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
