Words Of Courage Quotes:

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

source: "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Courage, Inspirational Courage, Spiritual Integrity

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

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

- John Wayne

topic: Courage, Veterans Day, Military, Being Scared, Special Needs

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Courage

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Inspirational Cancer, Do Not Give Up

Do the right thing because it is right.

- Immanuel Kant

source: Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press

topic: Courage, Honesty, Integrity, Inspirational Courage, Spiritual Integrity

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Courage, Fear, Patriotic, Be Courageous, Words Of Courage

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Life, Happiness, Courage, Acts Of Courage, Be Courageous

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

source: Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Military

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Time To Move On, Inspirational Adventure Time

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Failure In Life, Encouraging Words

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Self Determination, Inspirational Change

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

- Aristotle

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Inspirational Courage, Leadership Courage

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

topic: Life, Change, Meaningful, Courage To Change, Punishing Yourself

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Being Scared, Inspirational Achievement

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

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

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring, Inspirational Courage, Merciful God

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Making A Living, Software Design

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

- James Neil Hollingworth

topic: Courage, Judgement, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life

When you 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

topic: Looks, Able, Next, Empowering Women, Inspirational Adversity

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Encouraging Words, Words Of Courage

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

- Robert Liparulo

topic: Bravery, Absence, Forging Ahead, Living In Fear, Fears Of Life

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

- Epicurus

topic: Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage, Human Relations, Happy Relationship

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

- Donald Trump

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Life Ambition, Encouraging Words

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

- Wally Amos

topic: Encouraging, People, Important, Encouraging Words, Words Of Courage

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

- e. e. cummings

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational High School Graduation

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Unique, Opportunity, Life Opportunity, Encouraging Words

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

- Seneca the Younger

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Dare, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Courage

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

topic: Confidence, Fear, Weight Loss, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

- David Allen

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement, Encouraging Words, Words Of Courage

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Art, Inspirational Art, Creative Artists

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Success, Attitude, Life Opportunity, Encouraging Words

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.

- W Mitchell

topic: Affirmation, Positive Affirmations, Encouraging Words, Support And Encouragement, Words Of Courage

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Soul Healing, Godlike

Don't take life too seriously.

- RuPaul

source: RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins

topic: Life, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational, Meaning Life, Life Being Too Short

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

- Bonnie McFarlane

topic: Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart, Live In The Now, Life Opportunity