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Courage Quote by Melissa Etheridge

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

Melissa Etheridge

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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

J.R.R. Tolkien

It takes courage to stand up and speak. It also takes courage to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

Babe Ruth

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

Winston Churchill

To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.

Confucius

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracián

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

Melissa Etheridge

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Have the courage to be who you want to be, in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.

E.E. Cummings

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Muhammad Ali

You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.

Brené Brown

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

William Faulkner

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

E.E. Cummings

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

J.K. Rowling

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Shannon L. Alder

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Dorothy Bernard

To live without hope is to cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Nelson Mandela

Fortune favors the bold.

Virgil

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

John F. Kennedy

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Mark Twain

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Confucius

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

Maya Angelou

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.

Mark Twain

You must always be willing to work without applause.

Ernest Hemingway

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Emma Donoghue

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Ray Bradbury

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Nelson Mandela

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.

Veronica Roth

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Herodotus

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

Leap, and the net will appear.

John Burroughs

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Oprah Winfrey

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Steve Jobs

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

Anaïs Nin

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Ruth Gordo

Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

Susan Gale

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Winston Churchill

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Alan Alda

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Omar N. Bradley

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus (Disney’s Hercules)

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Maya Angelou

Courage means standing up for what is right, even when it’s difficult.

Unknown

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

George R.R. Martin

It takes courage to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.

Bethany Hamilton

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Margaret Mitchell

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.

Margaret Wheatley

The secret to happiness is freedom... and the secret to freedom is courage.

Thucydides

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.

John Wooden

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Roy T. Bennett

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Brené Brown

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

Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

Joyce Meyer

Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.

Franklin P. Jones

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Honoré de Balzac

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

P. T. Barnum

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

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

Steve Jobs