Top 100 Self Courage Quotes
#1. Great self-skills are self-confident, self-courage and self-steadiness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#7. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.
Nathaniel Branden
#8. The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
James Fisher
#10. Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
Frederick Douglass
#11. 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
#12. The excitement of creating is followed by desperate self-doubt. Courage and inspiration compete with discouragement and despair.
Diana Pavlac Glyer
#13. To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.
Roopleen
#14. Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt corageous and self-confident enough to tackle any power on earth; more precisely, she had ceased to worry about herself.
Michael Ende
#15. The confidence we have in God and in ourselves, gives us the courage to dare great things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
Mason Cooley
#19. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
Martha Stewart
#21. Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.
Alexander Suvorov
#23. You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.
Chris Prentiss
#24. Life's struggles are necessary for growth.
Auliq Ice
#26. Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply.
Fennel Hudson
#28. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#29. A vague worry has started alongside my self-satisfaction: I have established, with amazing rapidity, a reputation for maniacal, self-destructive courage.
William Boyd
#31. The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else ...
Andrew Jenson
#33. The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.
Zig Ziglar
#34. It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.
Ellen Key
#35. Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#36. Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the strengths you get from taking on your buried memories does not show up in your life until long after the resolution has been achieved.
Renee Fredrickson
#37. Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you're not going to go crashing to the bottom. Stepping outside of your own self-perceived boundaries and limitations.
Brad Willis
#38. Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
Sri Aurobindo
#39. Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.
Lynn Jones
#40. What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?
Edward Young
#41. Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.
John Buchan
#42. You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.
Roopleen
#43. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#44. Ray's voice echoes in my head from one of his many self-defense lectures.
It's the panic that's gonna kill you or get you seriously hurt, Annie.
E.L. James
#46. Only the gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage. Destroy self-exaltation and increase confidence. Destroy the pushiness of self-assertion and deliver from the paralysis of self-doubt.
John Piper
#47. Be confident, be bold! These are your life greatest strength for success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
#50. 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
#51. The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette Davis
#54. Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction
Heinrich Harrer
#55. Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.
Vironika Tugaleva
#56. It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#58. Whenever it comes to doing anything. Remember the part about having confidence.
Auliq Ice
#60. Jump, take that flight, and build your wings on the way down.
Dilip Bathija
#61. Don't think about who they [the Nazis] are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you [Mother Superior to Vianne].
Kristin Hannah
#62. Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.
Kamal Ravikant
#63. Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.
Tom Coburn
#64. I want you to believe in yourself, and take chances, even if it is scary and even if you don't know what you are doing yet.
Auliq Ice
#65. When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.
Heidi Reagan
#66. Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.
Patsie Smith
#67. Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.
C. JoyBell C.
#68. Never think twice, when you have decided once.
Auliq Ice
#69. Witnessing the Vette's demise, the way Rick felt, there wasn't a king on Earth who he would bow to. No religious figure whose hand he'd kiss. No icon of history he'd worship. No one whose autograph he'd seek. He was becoming a legend, and he was alive to feel it happen.
Rich Hoffman
#70. The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.
Gabor Mate
#71. William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.
Jim Rohn
#72. If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?
T.A. Cline
#73. The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try.
Rob Liano
#75. Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.
Roopleen
#76. She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.
Doris Lessing
#77. 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
#78. She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.
Nikki Rowe
#79. Big love is the kind of love that takes in more than the self. It's love for something bigger than the self. It's love of God, of the universe, of the family, of the pack, of the tribe. It inspires courage and selflessness in those who know it.
Angelo Dirks
#81. To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.
Solange Nicole
#84. The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.
Kyle Schmalenberg
#86. Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.
James I. Robertson Jr.
#87. Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron
#88. Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.
Sheila M Burke
#90. The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#91. We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
James A. Garfield
#93. Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.
Chief Dan George
#94. Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.
Roopleen
#95. 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
#96. Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing.
Shannon L. Alder
#97. Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.
Vironika Tugaleva
#98. Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do.
Miya Yamanouchi
#99. When we find the courage to look inside without allowing the filters of self-protection and self-preservation to blind us, it opens up a vista to personal growth that we never thought possible.
Steve Saccone
#100. Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.
Derrick A. Bell
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