Empowering Quotes on Courage and Strength: A Collection to Inspire

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Mark Twain

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

- Marianne Williamson

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

- Dale Carnegie

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Brené Brown

"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Courage does not always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid at the exact same time."

- Brené Brown

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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

- Anaïs Nin

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Muhammad Ali

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen."

- Brené Brown

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

"Don’t give into your fears, if you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart."

- Paulo Coelho

"It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."

- Seneca

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"God's love calls us to move beyond fear. We ask God for the courage to abandon ourselves unreservedly, so that we might be molded by God's grace, even as we cannot see where that path may lead us."

- St. Ignatius Loyola

"The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course in the United States... In that same spirit, we must have the courage - and teach our students the courage - to be bearers to the world of this transforming love, co-creators of a more deeply human world, collaborators with Christ in the building of God's Kingdom."

- Peter Hans Kolvenbach

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

- Babe Ruth

"To have courage for whatever comes in life, everything lies in that."

- St. Teresa of Avila

"God, grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

- Epicurus

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"You must always remember this: Have courage and be kind. You have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body. And it has power. More than you know."

- Brittany Candau

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Thucydides

"Courage is being scared to death … and saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

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

- William Faulkner

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

- Winston Churchill

"Courage results when one’s convictions are bigger than one’s fears."

- Orrin Woodward

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- R. G. Ingersoll

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

- Malcolm X

"We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

- Barbara de Angelis

"In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action."

- Diamond Dallas Page

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God."

- Isaiah 41:10

"Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique."

- Kevin Conroy

"It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."

- William Arthur Ward

"In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."

- Lee Iacocca

"You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."

- Golda Meir

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

- G.T. Shedd

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."

- Sydney Smith

"Let nothing frighten you. Who has God, lacks nothing. God alone is enough."

- St. Teresa of Avila

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."

- Robert H. Schuller

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. the sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

- Dale Carnegie

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid."

- Matthew 14:27

"Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong."

- 1 Corinthians 16:13

"But even if you should suffer because of righteousness, blessed are you. Do not be afraid or terrified with fear of them, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts."

- 1 Peter 3:14-15

"Do not lose your courage because it brings with it a great reward."

- Hebrews 10:35

"What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Do not let evil defeat you; instead conquer evil with good."

- Romans 12:21

"Pray without ceasing."

- Thessalonians 5:17

"FEAR has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run. Face Everything And Rise."

"Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing."

"Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity."

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

"Powerful words cans lift us up, motivate us, and give us the courage to do things we wouldn’t normally do."

"These courage quotes express how important it is to look within and find the fire that lights your path."

"So bookmark this courageous list of quotes so you have it handy for the next time you need an inspiring word or two."

"Everyone needs a little courage now and then. Perhaps you’re making a career change or moving to a new place. Or maybe you’re taking a stand on something you’re passionate about. Whatever your reason, you may need some words of encouragement to give you the confidence to face the unknown and go for what you want."

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