Love And Courage Quotes:

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Love, Inspiring, Moving On, Inspirational Courage, Love And Courage

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Laozi

topic: Love, Relationship, Positive, Touch Someone, Courage To Change

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage, Makes You Stronger, Never Surrender

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspiring Love

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

- Eden Ahbez

source: "Song: 'Nature Boy'". 1948.

topic: Love, Life, Learning, Inspirational Tattoo, Inspiring Movie

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, Free Love, Inspiring Love

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Love, Strong Women, Hurt, Love And Courage, Power And Love

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

- Jewel

topic: Courage, Greatest Love, Nothing To Lose, Love And Courage, Kinder

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

- Maya Angelou

source: Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Life Philosophy, Celebrate Life

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Spiritual, Courage, Fear, Spiritual Gratitude, Spiritual Path

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Life, Happiness, Inspiring, Courage To Change, Inspiration To Others

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

- Martha Beck

topic: Honesty, Self, And Love, Love And Courage

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful, Novel Writing, Courage To Change

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Inspiring, Love And Courage, Have A Laugh

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Honesty, Evil, Generosity, Stronger Than Ever, Love And Courage

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

topic: Courage, Pain, And Love, Acts Of Courage, Love And Courage

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Giving Up, Brave, World, Something Bigger Than Yourself, Love And Courage

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Social Equality, Love And Hate, Make Peace Not War, Social Programs

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Integrity, Moral Obligation, Integrity And Character

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Giving, Resentment, Burden, Relieved, Love And Courage

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

- Stormie Omartian

topic: Marriage, Husband, Giving, Your Husband, Inspiring Customer Service

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

- Brené Brown

topic: Courage, Risk, Boundaries, Love And Courage

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Love, Thinking, Compassion, Insufficient, Love And Courage

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Journey Inspirational, I Am Strong

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

- Maya Angelou

topic: Positive, Forgiveness, Mean, Love And Courage, What Is Forgiveness

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Fashion, Self Determination, Empowering Women

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Positive, Moving On, Powerful, Make You Cry, Courage To Change

We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

- Brené Brown

topic: Love, Compassion, Practice, Love And Courage, Greeting Card

Thought for Today: I dream big! I let go of any limitations on my imagination, and I give voice to my inner wisdom and creative impulses. I shed past fears and doubts, replacing them with courage and love. I nurture my future with the same care that I would give to a newborn baby.

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Letting Go, Dream, Baby, Thought Of The Day, Love And Courage

Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.

- Brené Brown

source: "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

topic: And Love, Principles, Arena, Love And Courage

Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

- Dan Millman

topic: Courage, Sleep, Warrior, Love And Courage

People who hate what I make hate me, too. They must think I am a demon or some kind of evil sorcerer. Those who understand what I do appreciate the determination, love, and courage it takes to find wonder and beauty in people who are considered by society to be damaged, unclean, dysfunctional, or wretched.

- Joel-Peter Witkin

source: Germano Celant, Joel-Peter Witkin (1995). “Witkin”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

topic: Determination, Hate, Thinking, Love And Courage

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

- Laurence Overmire

topic: Hatred, World, Dangerous, Love And Courage

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

- Ammon Hennacy

source: Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.149, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Love, Wisdom, Moving, Love And Courage, Love And Wisdom

No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act; doing becomes understanding.

- Dan Millman

source: Dan Millman (1995). “The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose”, p.390, H J Kramer

topic: Commitment, Thinking, Understanding, Love And Courage

People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he feels when he sees a mountain; a lion tamer what goes through his mind when he meets a new lion; a doctor confronted with a beautiful malfunctioning body. The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

- Elizabeth McCracken

topic: Beautiful, Running, Dream, Love And Courage, Mountain Climbers

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

- David Clement-Davies

topic: Love, Giving Up, Real, Love And Courage, Real Courage

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.

- Reginald Horace Blyth

topic: Appreciation, Loneliness, Grateful, Love And Courage, Selflessness

The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

- Caity Lotz

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Book, Reality, People, Story People, Love And Courage

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

- Elizabeth McCracken

source: Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.8, Random House

topic: Book, Ideas, Library, Love And Courage