Courage and Hope Quotes
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them
– every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit.
Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties;
he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.
Lord Chesterfield
Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
James R. Cook
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
Richard David Bach
Practice hope.
As hopefulness becomes a habit,
you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Norman Vincent Peale
When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.
By Henri Nouwen
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Thoreau
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher
Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest mistake is life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
“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. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
William Blake
If you don’t stand for something, you stand for nothing.
Mel Thompson
If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance for you to contribute to making a better world. That’s your choice.
Noam Chomsky, The Chronicles of Dissent
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent McNabb
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King, jr.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
All serious daring starts from within.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce
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.
Keshavan Nair
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
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
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
If courage wasn’t a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
Lawana Blackwell
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Tom Krause
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tse
Come to the edge,’ he said.They said, ‘We are afraid.”Come to the edge,’ he said.They came.He pushed them…And they flew.
Peter McWilliams
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there’s really nothing to lose.
Jewel
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man of courage never wants weapons.
Anonymous
You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love–who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
There is no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bear witness that a man has the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
Frankl
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King, jr.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richter
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
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.
Keshavan Nair
There would be nothing to frighten you, if you refused to be afraid.”
Mahatma Gandhi
To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.”
John F. Kennedy
For courage to be authentic, one must encounter fear and prove superior to the fear through right action.”
Mark Sturgell
There are some situations where all you can do is simply let go and move on, gather your courage and choose a direction that carries you toward a new dawn.”
Author Unknown
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.”
Henry van Dyke
“You must be courageous and brave, and not fearful, in taking advantage of life’s opportunities as they are made available to you.”
A. Posse
“Wish not for things, but for wisdom and courage.”
Author Unknown from 20 Keys To A Happy Life
Courage is a condition of our thinking, our mind, and our beliefs. Each of us at every given moment has the choice to be courageous or not.”
Ken Keis
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Let us not underestimate the power of hope.
No matter how fleeting its life,
It offers to us the most convincing
And fulfilling power.
Sri Chinmoy
Yesterday’s failures
Must be forgotten.
Tomorrow’s new hope
And new fulfilment
Must be cherished.
Sri Chinmoy
Hope is not a momentary flicker.
Hope is Eternity’s slow, steady,
Illumining and fulfilling height.
Sri Chinmoy
Hope Abides
Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear
once again In all its supernal glory.
Sri Chinmoy
Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.
John Muir
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Hasidic Saying
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
Mary Anne Radmacher
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia
You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
Cesar Chavez
I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
Mary Anne Radmacher
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
CALM IN CHAOS In the midst of the flurry – clarity. In the midst of the storm – calm. In the midst of divided interests – certainty. In the many roads – a certain choice.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Anaïs Nin
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the “hero” within us is revealed.
Bob Riley
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Theodore H. White
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Marie Curie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
Mary Anne Radmacher
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Willa Cather
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.
Keshavan Nair
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
Where fear is, happiness is not.
Seneca
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
James Allen
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.
Osho
A hero is someone who has given his life to something bigger than himself or something other than himself.
Joseph Campbell
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus
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.
Keshavan Nair
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
James Allen
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Theodore H. White
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!”
Dr Seuss
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford
The stories of past courage… can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalyn Carter
