COURAGE QUOTES

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Black, Claudia

Do not fear mistakes- there are none.
Davis, Miles

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Cicero

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles

Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
Lincoln, Abraham

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Stoppard, Tom

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, G. K.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Jung, Carl

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your
soul alive.
Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stop thinking and talking about it and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
Zen Paradigm

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

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
Drucker, Peter

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Nair, Keshavan

Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it."
Mariechild, Diane

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
Nin, Anais

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.
Black, Claudia

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Curie, Marie

You've got to find the force inside you. Campbell, Joseph

I need to take an emotional breath, step back and remind myself who's actually in charge of my life.
Knowlton, Judith

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation.
They are a response.
Deng Ming-Dao

The only way to pass any test is to take the test. anonymous
If you are not living on the edge, you take up too much room.

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Reese, Betty

We need to dwarf our troubles and magnify our blessings.
Neill, Humphrey B

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar
Keller, Helen

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Anonymous

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

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
Browning, Robert

Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
anonymous

The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.
Lao-tzu

The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato To gain that which is worth having,
it may be necessary to lose everything else
Devlin, Bernadette

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had enough individuality and courage to stand by his own convictions
Ingersoll, Robert G

When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.
Zwilich, Ellen

It is what we fear that happens to us.
Wilde, Oscar

This the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.
Frankl, Victor

A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.
Shaw, George Bernard

Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Goethe

He who gains victory over other men is strong; but he who gains victory over himself is all powerful.
Lao-Tzu

Let me listen to me and not to them.
Stein, Gertrude

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
Zen Saying

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
Kopp, Sheldon

To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam, To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistencies.
Gibran, Kahlil

You haven't failed till you quit trying.
Anonymous

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Bronte, Charlotte

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

If you see a whole thing- it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives...But up close a world's all dirt and rocks.
And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Le Guin, Ursula