Inspirational Courage Quotes

Let your fear of regret be stronger than your fear of failure. ~ Ruth Soukup

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. ~ Tommy Douglas

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. ~ Jerry Gillies

We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown. ~ Enza Vita

To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself. ~ Michael Sam

Big goals provide the road map for our lives, the compass that tells us we're moving in the right direction. ~ Ruth Soukup

The monster is only scary while it is in the closet.
Once in the light,
you can see its many flaws
and weaknesses.

And often,
we end up laughing,
at what we shield our eyes from
no more. ~ Tom Althouse

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins. ~ Friedrich Schiller

When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over ... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you. ~ John O'Donohue

When we set goals that feel safe and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. ~ Ruth Soukup

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less. ~ Ken Blanchard

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ~ John F. Kennedy

You don't always have to follow the rules. You have to stand for what you believe. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. ~ Tom Krause

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within. ~ Anthony De Mello

Whatever you do, you need courage. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All happiness depends on courage and work. ~ Honore De Balzac

Time will bring healing. ~ Euripides

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want ... ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. ~ Joseph Campbell

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. ~ Jewel

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship? ~ William McFee

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear. ~ Roy Bennett

Make a point of practicing imperfect action - do one thing each day just to do it, not because it needs to be "right. ~ Ruth Soukup

COURAGE doesn't mean we are never scared. Courage is ACTION in the face of fear. ~ Ruth Soukup

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all. ~ Maya Angelou

Sometimes the way to personal freedom seems scary - Take the first step to begin the release of doubt and fear. Each new step builds confidence. Breathe. Don't look back. ~ Sheila Burke

Sometimes its the small random things that make us smile the most ~ Elizabeth Clark

If you drop a gold coin in mud, it does not lose its value. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to lose and gain the love, than win and lose the love. ~ Debasish Mridha

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact. ~ Rajneesh

Be happy, be happy. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mistakes are made move on ~ NightBits

True love has no ending and no beginning. ~ Debasish Mridha

The realm of love is light of miracles. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing. ~ Joel Osteen

Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.) ~ Richie Norton

Don't forget to appreciate yourself. ~ Debasish Mridha

Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions. ~ Felicia Johnson

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

We should be sure that in our pursuit of happiness and positivity, we do not lose our ability to experience the other side of life, as well. Feelings of grief and respect for the departed, are honourable thoughts to have and honourable feelings to feel. In seeking happiness, we must not be so afraid of sorrow, that we lose the ability to cope with it properly. There is a healthy way to cope with both sorrow and joy; both need to be looked straight in the face, in the eyes. ~ C. JoyBell C.

The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions. ~ Timothy Ferriss

I am the Olympics. ~ Dave Eggers

Sigyn's way takes such courage. Her way is a quiet way of personal mindfulness and dedication. It is a simple way. It is a terrifying way. Walking in Her footsteps means that there is no place to hide: no fine words, no angry posturing, no pride, no ego, no boasting–Her deeds are boast enough. There is nothing but what must be done and a heart committed to the doing. Sigyn's way is simple: constancy of the heart, in the face of hatred, opposition, jealousy, slander, exhaustion, grief, anguish, rage, despair and a thousand other obstacles that life has a way of creating. She is constancy of purpose. […] She is vast, and Her strength is vast even as it is so completely unassuming. It simply is and will not be moved. She is the 'Lady of Unyielding Gentleness' for much the same reason. Her gentleness of spirit is Her shield and Her strength, and in it She is fierce. Her devotion is Her armor. ~ Galina Krasskova

We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom ~ Rick Beneteau

Live your life so you don´t have to have any regrets when you throw your 70 year old birthday party ~ Herdis Pala

Ben Says:The world is going through a very difficult time ... we can all do something special to better humanity and help those in despair get back on their feet. We can all make a difference.
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Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. ~ Eleanor Of Aquitaine

Peace, peace, be still. Peace, peace, be at peace. Be still and be at peace. ~ Susan Shumsky

The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured. And by the way, that is very important. Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. When a neurotic who has a pathological horror of cats forces himself to pick up a cat for some good reason, it is quite possible that in God's eyes he has shown more courage than a healthy man may have shown in winning the V.C. When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing does dome tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed, and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God's eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend.

It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing, and then with the power, say, of Himmler? That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. Most of the man's psychological makeup is probably d ~ C.S. Lewis

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded. ~ Chanakya

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths. ~ Kenneth Cole

shot in the eye
shot in the brain
shot in the ass
shot like a flower in the dance

amazing how death wins hands down
amazing how much credence is given to idiot forms of
life

amazing how laughter has been drowned out
amazing how viciousness is such a constant

I must soon declare my own war on their war
I must hold to my last piece of ground
I must protect the small space I have made that has
allowed me life

my life not their death
my death not their death

this place, this time, now
I vow to the sun
that I will laugh the good laugh once again
in the perfect place of me
forever.

their death not my life. ~ Charles Bukowski

Courage is walking forward and embracing others in love even though you may suffer greatly in ways you could never imagine now. Jesus walked that way before you, and he walks that way now with you. That's the way of the cross. ~ Russell D. Moore

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.' ~ Maya Angelou

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. ~ Stephen King