48 Inspiring Quotes to Spark Your Inner Courage

"I am not afraid. I was born to do this."

- Joan of Arc

"Ask not what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian Maclaren

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."

- Henry Ford

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

- Louis L'Amour

"There is one grand lie: that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You,' that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

"Don't allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not."

- Paulo Coelho

"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."

- Joseph Campbell

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot

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

- Winston Churchill

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."

- Armand Hammer

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."

- Joseph Campbell

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

- Albert Einstein

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."

- Dalai Lama

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

- Gandhi

"God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. You were never not coming here."

- Sufi poem

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow

"The Pearl Principle – no inner irritation, no pearl."

- Lama Surya Das

"Whatever is… is best."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."