Courage is something we all have to learn how to cultivate and put into action. It is not the absence of fear. But it is the ability to act despite your fears not to allow pain or discomfort of any kind to stop you from doing what’s right, good, and necessary.
It’s easy to be courageous when it comes to duty or grander concepts like life or love. But courage is also required for day-to-day tasks such as deciding whether one should leave a toxic relationship or pursue one dream job in another city.
There are many ways courage can be cultivated: by facing your fears, being mindful of your decisions, practicing kindness and empathy towards yourself and others, learning how to say ‘no,’ pursuing meaning over pleasure, taking risks to become stronger, and more confident in yourself.
Give yourself some time now for reflection. Ask yourself these questions and be honest with your answers. There’s so much more that we can do in life than what our minds imagine now.
So many people are afraid to fail and afraid to take risks. Yet, those who take risks and push forward with their ideas are most likely to see success in life.
Here are 43 inspiring quotes on courage to achieve your dreams
“There will always be fear; do it anyway. Let your courage inspire the world around you.” ― Steve Maraboli
“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort. But you cannot choose both.” ― Brene Brown
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ― Oprah Winfrey
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” ― Anonymous
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner
“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
“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
“We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” ― Barbara De Angelis
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” ― Winston Churchill
“One man with courage makes a majority.” ― Andrew Jackson
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”― C.S. Lewis
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” ― Bryce Courtenay
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston Churchill
“Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.” ― William T. Sherman
“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” ― Mary Tyler Moore
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” ― Amelia Earhart
“Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.” ― A.W. Hare
“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” ― Anonymous
“It takes courage to deal with failures. It takes courage to admit when you are wrong.” ― R Dooley
“What good are wings without the courage to fly?” Atticus
“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.” ― Madeleine L’Engle
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” ― Winston Churchill
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” ― George Sheehan
“It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.” ― Marianne Williamson
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” ― Tom Krause
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ― E.E. Cummings
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” ― JamesStephens
“It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” ― Brené Brown
“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” ― David Viscott
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” ― R. G. Ingersoll
“Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ― Coco Chanel
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” ― Erica Jong
“Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest.” ― Maya Angelou
“It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ― Walt Disney
“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody.” ― Justin Cronin
“Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.” ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ― Anais Nin
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” ― Steve Jobs
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.” ― Jenna Jameson
