I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.
-Erica Jong
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-G.K. Chesterton
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-Winston Churchill
The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.
-Dalai Lama
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
-Rosa Parks
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
-Charles DuBois
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
-Brene Brown
Do you have the courage to act outwardly on what you see inwardly?
-T.D. Jakes
Courage means doing what’s right no matter what they say.
-Maxime Lagacé
Courage is a love affair with the unknown.
-Osho
First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.
-Marie Curie
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
-Vincent van Gogh
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
-Erica Jong
Amateurs are scared – scared to be vulnerable and honest with themselves. Professionals feel like they are capable of handling almost anything.
- Shane Parrish
Lean into (not away from) what’s making you uncomfortable.
-Shane Parrish
Will you dare to try and learn and grow? Or will you allow fear to take over? Life happens in the river, not on the shore.
-Maxime Lagace
Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?
-Marcus Aurelius
It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life.
-Paulo Coelho
Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.
-Pema Chodron
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The best way to neutralise our natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain – like an athlete, you come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the easy way out.
-Robert Greene
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
-Harper Lee
Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be.
-David Goggins
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
-Catherine the Great
Think of yourself as an explorer. You cannot find anything new if you are unwilling to leave the shore.
-Robert Greene
You can choose to let this thing bother you or let this be an adventure and welcome the challenge.
-Fred Rogers
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
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
-Jim Hightower
To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.
-Jordan Peterson
Don’t avoid something frightening if it stands in your way.
-Jordan Peterson
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
-Raymond Lindquist
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar.
-Osho
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain
Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
-Anaïs Nin
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
-Mahatma Gandhi
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.-Erica Jong