What Would Your Life Be Like If Courage Was Your Constant Companion?

Courage is available to all of us. With courage, we grow and advance in life. Courage is a habit that we can develop with daily practice by performing small acts of bravery. It's key to remember that courage has nothing to do with being fearless.

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

Courage allows us to face our fears to pursue what we truly want in life, personally and professionally. Of course, courage isn't a supernatural power that will solve everything in our lives. Rather, courage is a force that propels us to explore the unknown and to be more prepared to deal with unexpected situations in life. These are some of the most powerful quotes about courage thoughtfully selected to guide you to awaken the courageous giant inside of you: 1.   "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." Muhammad Ali 2.   "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things." Theodore Roosevelt 3.   "Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.   "All you need is the plan, the roadmap, and the courage to press on to your destination." Earl Nightingale 5.   "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give." Eleanor Roosevelt 6.   "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage". Lao Tzu 7.   "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill 8.   "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney 9.  " 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 10. "Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity." W. Clement Stone 11. "Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." Helen Keller 12. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." Mark Twain 13. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Reinhold Niebuhr 14. "Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." Confucius 15. "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T. S. Eliot 16. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." e. e. cummings 17. "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." Martin Luther King, Jr. 18. "Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts." John Wooden 19. "Courage is knowing what not to fear." Plato 20. "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." Billy Graham 21. "Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace." Nelson Mandela 22. "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others." Aristotle 23. "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis 24. "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others." Winston Churchill 25. "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all." Miguel de Cervantes 26. "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." Aristotle 27. "Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage." Theodore Roosevelt 28. "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." Maya Angelou 29. "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 30. "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." Mark Twain 31. "Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it." Albert Camus 32. "To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle." Confucius 33. "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." Amelia Earhart 34. "How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them." Benjamin Franklin 35. "Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed." Dale Carnegie 36. "Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.: Saint Francis de Sales 37. "He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy." Socrates 38. "Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!" Thomas A. Edison 39. "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 40. "A man of courage is also full of faith." Marcus Tullius Cicero 41. "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." Earl Wilson 42. "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace." Victor Hugo 43. "It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity." Horace 44. "Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day." Kirk Cameron 45. "If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help." Max Lucado 46. "The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." George Bernard Shaw 47. "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." Ralph Waldo Emerson 48. "Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on." Francois de La Rochefoucauld 49. "We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity." Barbara De Angelis 50. "He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!" Anne Frank 51. "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" Vincent Van Gogh 52. "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 53. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 54. "Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life." Miguel Angel Ruiz 55. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie