Top 100 Life Courage Quotes
#1. It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
Oriana Fallaci
#2. Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
Voltaire
#3. Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement.
Charles Dickens
#4. Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.
Suzy Kassem
#5. In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
Michael Servetus
#6. Saying yes . . . saying yes is courage. Saying yes is the sun. Saying yes is life.
Shonda Rhimes
#7. 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.
Brene Brown
#8. In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
Caleb Deschanel
#10. I've had an amazing life. One filled with blessings I could never have imagined.
Depressed is the last thing I am. Realistic, yes. Sad, never.
Viola Shipman
#11. Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.
Paul Roberts
#12. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
#13. A bird needs two wings to fly over the sky.
Life is too,but it needs Courage and Patience.
Saravanan
#14. It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.
Glenn Greenwald
#15. it takes courage to look life in the eye and say yes to the messy glory
Deborah Wiles
#16. The wonders of life ... you and I are the light! Seek within ... there is no one to fight ... love is all ... we are one ... concentrate on bringing forth your sight ... breathe deep ... the universe is waiting for you divine ones.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#17. Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.
Tyrtaeus
#18. Vision is the code that decodes every mediocrity out of life.
Auliq Ice
#20. I ain't scared to lend a hand
I ain't scared to clench it either
Mie Hansson
#21. You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.
Roopleen
#23. Be confident, be bold! These are your life greatest strength for success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.
Klaus Schwab
#25. Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#26. The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette Davis
#28. The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.
Mary Alice Monroe
#29. Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#30. I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.
Sophie Scholl
#31. Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way.
Mohammed Ali Bapir
#32. [L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.
Stephen King
#33. Be brave in life.
Have the courage to move in the direction of your dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. I had started to wonder if maybe my life wouldn't always hold so much pain if I could just find the courage to let it go.
K.A. Robinson
#35. I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero.
Crystal Woods
#36. When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. That paper
it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in.
Markus Zusak
#38. Friends create the world anew each day.
Without their loving care, courage would not
suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
Helen Keller
#39. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#40. There were so many things we left unsaid. Depending on how you look at it, whether you think it was worth saying it out loud, or better kept inside.
Diyar Harraz
#41. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
#43. Expect the unexpected in life, love, religion, politics and many more such drivers for humanity. These will ask you to fight and you need courage to fight them.
Santosh Kalwar
#45. I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
Jeff Koons
#46. Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.
Keith Carter
#47. You create the possibility of reaching your desired destinations if you have the courage to begin your journey.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.
Suze Orman
#49. Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve.
Stephen T. Harper
#50. The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
Tullian Tchividjian
#51. To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.
Solange Nicole
#53. Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron
#55. There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior.
John Eldredge
#56. The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.
Steve Pavlina
#57. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can dream bravely: letting go of your limiting beliefs and pushing past your fears. You can start to come up with a truly original dream that germinates in your soul and bears fruit in your life.
Alberto Villoldo
#58. True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#59. For resurrection faith means courage to revolt against the "covenant with death" (Isa. 28:15), it means hope for the victory of life which shall swallow up and conquer life-devouring death. ~ p.14
Jurgen Moltmann
#60. Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#61. By standing alone,
you prove your courage.
By standing with others,
you prove your love.
By standing with truth,
you prove your virtue.
By standing with God,
you prove your faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#63. Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.
Carl Jung
#64. Whatever aspect of life you apply it to, making change takes courage.
Gloria Feldt
#65. He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when he needed it. His decisions had been short sighted. The decisions of his peers had been short sighted. These decisions had been foolish and expedient.
Dave Eggers
#66. Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#67. Two of the hardest decisions in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.
Paulo Coelho
#68. Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.
Richard Paul Evans
#70. Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
Mark Manson
#71. So what if you're scared spitless? So what if you're intimidated, insecure or inundated with doubt? If it's the thing that will advance you, do it anyway. Forward movement always begins with an inward decision.
Toni Sorenson
#72. A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
Ellis Peters
#73. Fear is inevitable but I accept it with love and courage and I triumph.
Debasish Mridha
#74. The greatest act of personal courage is conscientiously to mature, by resolutely striving to achieve self-actualization and self-realization. A person who knows their true self and lives their life in an authentic manner while pursuing their honest passions will lose his misery.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#75. I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers.. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success.
John Legend
#76. There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.
Nikki Rowe
#77. Please remember, no matter how hard it seems and no matter how badly you feel you can always become courageous.
Abeba Habtu
#78. In our life sometimes we have to make painful choices. And it takes a bit of courage to make up our mind for it involves an element of renunciation, something hard to accept in a world steeped in pleasure and comfort.
Fr. Henry Bocala
#79. There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you ... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.
Terence McKenna
#80. Smile and Slay.
You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
Janna Cachola
#82. Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.
Don Roff
#83. Our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.
Isabel Allende
#85. Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins.
Carol Berg
#86. Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.
Pope John Paul II
#87. If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather use your gift to help others find their own way to strength.
Anthony Liccione
#88. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
#90. Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man accepted the dangers, the element of chance. If he didn't, he won nothing.
John Jakes
#91. It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.
Oliver Sacks
#92. I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life.
John Prendergast
#93. Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental.
Susann Cokal
#95. The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.
Gregory David Roberts
#96. The best richness is the richness of the soul
Anonymous
#97. Love is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage.
Amy Andrews
#98. Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
Emile Hirsch
#99. Face your fears and you will be able to conquer them.
Bohdi Sanders
#100. Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters
Sharad Vivek Sagar
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