Courage Quotes

Enjoy our collection of famous courage quotes to live by. Courage is something most of us wonder about. It is a part of our being we may not know fully until that time when we need to take action or to make a decision not necessarily based on logic but instead on an internal passion to do more or participate in an act that we neber thought possible. Here are a couple of our favorites; "Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow." by Dan Rather, and, "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." by Winston Churchill.


Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth.
Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.,
If Life Is A Game
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It's okay to ask for help. You don't have to solve every problem and bear the burden alone.
Meladee McCarty and Hanoch McCarty, The Daily Journal of Kindness

Curiosity is the right companion of change. It is an attitude that we must elect to hold. As I embrace an attitude of curiosity and wonder, change brings me growth and renewal.
Julia Cameron, Transitions, Prayers Declarations For A Changing Life

It's hard for us to admit that we need or want help or support from anyone. Any feelings of need or dependency seem very shameful. Yet, without the ability to accept and acknowledge our feelings of need and vulnerability, we can't reach out for help when appropriate, we can't receive love, we can't embrace our humanity.
Shakti Gawain, The Path Of Transformation

Pursuing new challenges is essential to our ability to find new opportunities for flow in our life. Refining our skills to meet these challenges is a way of getting meaningfully engaged.
Ian K. Smith, M.D., Happy; Simple Steps To Get The Most Out Of Life

A man who lacks enthusiasm never develops it in another. But a person who is enthusiastic soon has enthusiastic followers.
Schwartz, David J., Ph.D. The Magic Of Thinking Big. Simon & Schuster, 1965, p. 135.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
Lauren Raffo

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce

Nothing but courage can guide life.
Vauvenargues


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