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1. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on—it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
2. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
3. “Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.” – Baltasar Gracian
4. “The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” – Jim Hightower
5. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal—it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
6. “Courage originally meant, ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.’” –
7. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner
8. “Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” – Bethany Hamilton
9. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
10. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” – J.K. Rowling
11. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
12. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a eginman with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Atticus Finch
13. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak—courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
14. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
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15. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself—aloud.” – Coco Chanel
16. “Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” – Erica Jong
17. “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
18. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John A. Shedd
19. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
20. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
21. “Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.” –
22. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
23. “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” –
24. “The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
25. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
26. “Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.” – Ruth Gordon
27. “Courage is the only virtue you can’t fake.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
28. “I have lived my life according to this principle—if I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” – Erica Jong
29. “Courage is being the only one who knows how terrified you are.” – Anonymous
30. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
31. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” – Jane Austen
32. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
33. “Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.” – Erica Jong
34. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
35. “My message, especially to young people, is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
36. “Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” – Shannon L. Adler
37. “He who loses wealth loses much, he who loses a friend loses more, but he that loses his courage loses all.” – Miguel de Cervantes
38. “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
39. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
40. “You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” – Brene Brown
41. “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius
42. “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” – Ann Landers
43. “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
44. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Anonymous
45. “The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.” – Stephen King
46. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings
47. “Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times, and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.” – Malcolm Gladwell
48. “It is only through labor and , by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt
49. “The is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that, you can live through anything.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
50. “Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless when facing them.” – Rabindranath Tagore
51. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Aristotle
52. “Start living in discomfort. Gradually increase it little by little, and you will steadily grow. If you want sudden growth, deluge yourself in great discomfort and do not retreat from it. The more discomfort you are willing to bear, the more you can grow.” – The Ancient Sage
53. “I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.” – Erica Jong
54. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them—that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
55. “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.” – Maya Angelou
56. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards—they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak, and last, some crisis shows what we have become.” – Brooke Foss Westcott
57. “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections.” –
58. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
59. “True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.” – Alfred North Whitehead
60. “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.” – Mark Twain
61. “If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” – Harry Hoover
62. “Remember, you can’t steal second if you don’t take your foot off first.” – Mike Todd
63. “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
64. “A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.” – Sydney Smith
65. “Nobody learns what he can do except by trying.” – Seneca
66. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” – Brené Brown
67. “Don’t get discouraged. It is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” – Anonymous
68. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
69. “I beg you take courage—the brave soul can mend even disaster.” – Catherine the Great
70. “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
71. “Have the courage to act instead of react.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
72. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs
73. “Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.” – Albert Einstein
74. “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” – Dr. Roopleen
75. “Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” – Dale Carnegie
76. “Courage is not limited to the battlefield, or the Indianapolis 500, or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.” – Charles Swindoll
77. “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.” – Stephen Hawking
78. “It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life.” – Paulo Coelho
79. “You can and you will. The difficulty of it is why you must.” – Charles Rhoades
80. “Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.” – Henry David Thoreau
81. “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.” – Thomas Merton
82. “Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards, but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you. But if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.” – Orison Swett Marden
83. “We don’t develop courage by being happy every day, we develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Barbara De Angelis
84. “The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.” – Carl Lewis
85. “The willingness to show up changes us, it makes us a little braver each time.” – Brené Brown
86. “Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life—and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” – Ann Landers
87. “All problems—personal, national, or combat—become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you—grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!” – Admiral William ‘Bull’ Halsey
88. “Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand—that and such hope as I bring.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
89. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles Swindoll
90. “The only way to solve a problem is to go through it rather than around it.” – Bill Bradley
91. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
92. “You can choose to let this thing bother you or let this be an adventure and welcome the challenge.” – Fred Rogers
93. “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
94. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
95. “The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.” –
96. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
97. “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself, and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” – Anne Frank
98. “Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.” – Amit Ray
99. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” – Roy T. Bennett
100. “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” – Marcus Garvey
101. “It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.” – Giacamo Casanova
102. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard
103. “It takes courage to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.” – Marianne Williamson
104. “Trust the still, small voice that says, ‘This might work and I’ll try it.’” – Diane Mariechild
105. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” – George Sheehan
106. “You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
107. “Don’t limit expectations of yourself and settle for anything less than what you are truly capable of achieving” –
108. “To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits, and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street
109. “There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.” – Susan Cain
110. “Be bold. Be courageous. Never be afraid to speak up and speak out.” –
111. “Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing, and once you’ve chosen the wisest thing, go out and try to achieve it. Be it.” – Maya Angelou
112. “Trying to run away is never the answer to being fully human.” – Pema Chödrön
113. “Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.” – Ray Bradbury
114. “Where your fear is, there is your task.” –
115. “Courage, to me, is doing something daring no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed, or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action no matter what. So you’re afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you’re trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!” – Richelle E. Goodrich
116. “Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, ‘Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.’” – Anonymous
117. “To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do—realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.” – Peter McWilliams
118. “The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
119. “Being terrified, but going ahead and doing what must be done—that’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.” – Piers Anthony
120. “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
121. “Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts, to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at you to fight or flee, and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.” – Jim Butcher
122. “Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. He is also a fool.” – Robert A. Heinlein
123. “Courage is a special kind of knowledge—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
124. “Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.” – Benjamin Disraeli
125. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato
126. “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” – Franklin P. Jones
127. “‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ That is the only time a man can be brave.” – George R.R. Martin
128. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you, they’re there to let you know that something is worth it.” – C. JoyBell C.
129. “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” – Emma Donoghue
133. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” – Eleanor Roosevelt
131. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.” – Arthur Koestler
132. “Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
133. “True courage is being afraid, and going ahead, and doing your job anyhow—that’s what courage is.” – Norman Schwarzkopf
134. “Fate loves the fearless.” – James Russell Lowell
135. “There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.” – L. Frank Baum
136. “Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.” – Roy T. Bennett
137. “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill
138. “Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
139. “Don’t be satisfied with stories—how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
140. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
141. “Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” –
142. “My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.” – Jenna Jameson
143. “Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
144. “He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” – Jean-Luc Godard
145. “People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don’t ever stop!” – Steve Maraboli
146. “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.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
147. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
148. “Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking, doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody.” – Justin Cronin
149. “Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be.” – David Goggins
150. “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
151. “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” – August Wilson
152. “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” – Brené Brown
153. “Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.” – Conn Iggulden
154. “Owning our story can be hard, but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky, but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love, and belonging, and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” – Brene Brown
155. “It takes guts and humility . Admitting we’re wrong is courage, not weakness.” – Roy T. Bennett
156. “Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.” – Roy T. Bennett
157. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.” – Reginald Rose
158. “Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?” – Charles Lindbergh
159. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
160. “One man with courage makes a majority.” –
161. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change. At such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” – Paulo Coelho
162. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure—to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen
163. “We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” – Mary McLeod Bethune
164. “We must become bigger than we have been—more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.” – Haile Selassie
165. “Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no , society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” – Harry S. Truman
166. “It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it.” – Sue Hadfield
167. “Change is often a silent inside job that requires patience and courage—courage to be yourself, courage to resist negativity, courage to go beyond your boundaries, courage to take responsibility for your own life.” – Gordana Biernat
168. “For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” – Eric Roth
169. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron
170. “Live the life of your dreams. Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the and opinions of others.” – Roy T. Bennett
171. “There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes, bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes, it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes, it doesn’t. Sometimes, it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.” – Veronica Roth
172. “To have courage for whatever comes in life—everything lies in that.” – Saint Teresa of Avila
173. “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” – Amelia Earhart
174. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent Van Gogh
175. “Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.” – Zig Ziglar
176. “In all realms of life, it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential.” – Suze Orman
177. “True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don’t mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I’m talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.” – Robin Hobb
178. “You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty—for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude, and determination you bring to it.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
179. “It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.” – Renee Ahdieh
180. “Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” – EM Forster
181. “I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully—enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits” – Anaïs Nin
182. “Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.” – Adam Lindsay Gordon
183. “I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked.” – Brené Brown
184. “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone. Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett
185. “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” – C. JoyBell C.
186. “The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” – Tacitus
187. “Will you dare to try and learn and grow, or will you allow fear to take over? Life happens in the river, not on the shore.” – Maxime Lagacé
188. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
189. “Courage is seeing too much comfort will make you weak.” – Maxime Lagacé
190. “The paradox of learning is that to get better, you need to go outside your comfort zone, and thus feel worse. The people who grow continuously, thus feel consistently over their heads.” – Scott Young
191. “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort. It’s choosing what’s right over what’s fun, fast, or easy. And it’s practicing your values, not just professing them.” – Brené Brown
192. “Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.” – Robert Thier
193. “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.” – Paulo Coelho
194. “Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage. And I would come out on top.” – Joseph Smith, Jr.
195. “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
196. “God, grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.” – Chester W. Nimitz
197. “You can have from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.” – Shannon Alder
198. “It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.” – Alex Karras
199. “All happiness depends on courage and work.” – Honoré de Balzac
200. “The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides
201. “Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.” – Ovid
202. “There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” – Seneca
203. “We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.” – Madeleine L’Engle
204. “Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.” –
205. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there was only joy in the world.” – Helen Keller
206. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” –
207. “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.” – Veronica Roth
208. “If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.” – Brené Brown
209. “Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.” – Carl von Clausewitz
210. “Courage conquers all things—it even gives strength to the body.” – Ovid
211. “He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.” – Socrates
212. “A king is one who fears nothing.” – Seneca
213. “Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.” – Soyen Shaku
214. “The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!” – Joyce Meyer
215. “Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.” – Karl Von Clausewitz
216. “There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior.” – David Letterman
217. “You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
218. “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis
219. “Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” – Samuel Johnson
220. “Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” – Clare Boothe Luce
221. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle
222. “Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.” – Thucydides
223. “Courage, kindness, friendship, character—these are the qualities that define us as human beings and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” – R.J. Palacio
224. “Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.” – Brené Brown
225. “Conscience is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him obey his conscience.” – James Freeman Clarke
226. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot
227. “Courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar.” –
228. “It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.” – Xiaolu Guo
229. “Think of yourself as an explorer. You cannot find anything new if you are unwilling to leave the shore.” – Robert Greene
230. “If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?” – Les Brown
231. “Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid, at the exact same time.” – Brené Brown
232. “Take chances, make mistakes—that’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore
233. “The hard choices—what we most fear doing, asking, saying—these are very often exactly what we most need to do.” – Tim Ferriss
234. “People are weak because when challenged, they opt for the path of least resistance. Taking the path of least resistance makes them weaker still, and thus, more likely to opt for the path of least resistance again in the future. It’s a deadly cycle.” – Zuby
235. “You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise, you’ll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.” – Francis Ford Coppola
236. “I believe in getting into hot water—it keeps you clean.” – G.K. Chesterton
237. “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” – Jonas Salk
238. “We need a backbone, not a wishbone.” – Joyce Meyer
239. “A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.” – Les Brown
240. “Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.” – Wim Wenders
241. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” – Erma Bombeck
242. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time, and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
243. “Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.” – Morihei Ueshiba
244. “Courage is like love—it must have hope for nourishment.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
245. “The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.” – Dalai Lama
246. “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love—it is the prerogative of the brave.” – Mahatma Gandhi
247. “Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage.” – Delmore Schwartz
248. “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
249. “He who is brave is free.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
250. “Through untold courage and sacrifice, America’s veterans have secured the liberty which the founding fathers sought to establish here in the new world.” – Gen. Colin L. Powell
251. “Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness, and courage to be the secret of liberty.” – Louis D Brandeis
252. “Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” – Pericles
253. “Freedom lies in bold action.” – Robert Frost
254. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
255. “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.” – Mahatma Gandhi
256. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” –
257. “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” –
258. “When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don’t feel that I’m being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love. ” –
259. “My courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for—a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?'” –
260. “No man is defeated unless he is discouraged.” – Bruce Lee
261. “Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it. Men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts, we come to be just. By doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled. And by doing brave acts, we become brave.” – Aristotle
262. “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe
263. “Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” – Pope John Paul II
264. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” – W. Clement Stone
265. “Courage means doing what’s right no matter what they say.” – Maxime Lagacé
266. “There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good.” –
267. “It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.” – Pablo Casals
268. “There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” –
269. “Fight hard when you are down—die hard. Determine at least what to do, and you won’t die at all.” – James H. West
270. “When things go wrong as they sometimes will, when the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, when the funds are low and the debts are high and you want to smile but you have to sigh, when care is pressing you down a bit, rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint on the clouds of doubt. And you can never tell how close you are. It may be near when it seems afar. So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit. It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit.” – Anonymous
271. “If you fail anywhere along the line, it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
272. “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” – Charlie Chaplin
273. “Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Chris Bradford
274. “The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.” – Roy T. Bennett
275. “Courage is grace under pressure.” –
276. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm
277. “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy
278. “Courage is not the absence of despair–it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.” – Rollo May
279. “Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.” – Timothy Dalton
280. “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” – Margaret Mitchell
281. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin
282. “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” – G.K. Chesterton
283. “It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” – Horace
284. “Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” – Lana del Rey
285. “A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inner courage dares to live.” – Lao Tzu
286. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” –
287. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain
288. “It requires more courage to suffer than to die.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
289. “Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs—it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.” – Christopher Paolini