Courage Quotes

"Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness, they are signs of strength."

- Dalai Lama

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice."

- George Jackson

"When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time."

- Carl Yastrzemski

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

- Babe Ruth

"The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can’t jump over it or go around it. You know what to do."

- Dwayne Johnson

""Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.""

- E.M. Bounds

""I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.""

- Abraham Lincoln

"She (my mother) became a warrior far superior to any epic hero. She became a giant on her knees. With a sword in one hand she battled the enemies of death and disease, and with her other hand stretched toward heaven she kept beseeching God’s help and His mercy."

- Bishop T.D. Jakes

"God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'"

- Rick Warren

"Don’t be afraid to be amazing."

- Andy Offutt Irwin

"If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter."

- Chekov

"The fear is worse than the pain."

- Shannon Bahr

"When you are on stage you don’t see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across."

- Suzanne Farrell

"Try to be fearless, because fear can inhibit you and keep you from a life."

- Miranda Weese

"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."

- Isaac Asimov

"Ferocity doesn’t care what it looks like."

- Maurya Kerr

"The artistic path is a fearless occupation."

- Alonzo King

"To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts – absolute gifts – which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul… The brave soul. The soul that dares and defies."

- Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"Fairy Tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway."

- Steven Coallier

"Stress is an important dragon to slay—or at least tame—in your life."

- Marilu Henner

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you."

- Bianca Sparacino

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You don't have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, 'Stay calm and carry on.'"

- Mary Cain

"I have to stay calm, cool, and collected."

- Canelo Alvarez

"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."

- Franklin P. Jones

"Start with courage"

"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."