Courage & Hope Quotes
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”
~Unknown
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Emerson was a famous American author, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
“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 (1936 – )
Bach is an American writer who is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” “Illusions,” “The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah” and others.
“Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t, I give myself reasons why I can.”
~Unknown
“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
~James R. Cook (1728-1778)
Cook was a British navigator, explorer, and cartographer. He became famous for his voyages in the Pacific Ocean and his accurate mapping of it, as well as for his application of scientific methods to exploration.
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
~ Japanese Proverb
“I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.”
~Les Brown (1945 – )
A renowned American professional motivational speaker, author and television personality. He was briefly married to singer Gladys Knight.
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
~Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922)
Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor and innovator who is credited in the United States with the invention of the telephone.
“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.”
~John William Gardner (1912 – 2002)
Gardner was an American author and educator, as well as a former US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson.
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. “
~Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945)
Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States.
“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.”
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (121 – 180)
Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the “Five Good Emperors”, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers. He was often referred to as “the Wise.”
“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
~Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world’s best known, most popular and expensive works of art, many of these being produced in the final two years of his life. It was during this time that he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin.
“If you’re going through hell, keep going. “
~Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
A British politician who served as Prime Minster of the United Kingdom–twice. The first appointment was from 1940 to 1945, where he demonstrated his skill in leadership during the British war effort. His second service to office was held between 1951 and 1955.
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
~(Christopher Robin to Pooh) – Alan Alexander Milne (1882 – 1956)
Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the adventures of a bear called Winnie-the-Pooh. The character called Christopher Robin, was named after his own son, and the various characters found in the stories were inspired by his son’s stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. “
~Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)
Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) depicted life for African-Americans under slavery.
“One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.”
~Col. Harland Sanders (1890 – 1980)
Harland David Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders, was an American entrepreneur who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
~Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher. This was a busy man!
“The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.”
~Antoine de Saint Exupery (1900 – 1944)
Exupery was a French writer and aviator. He is most famous for his novella The Little Prince, and is also well known for his books about aviation adventures, including Night Flight and Wind, Sand and Stars.
“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”
~Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888)
Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.
“Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.”
~Mary Kay Ash (1918 – 2001)
Was an American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.
“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
~George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
Shaw was an Irish playwright who wrote more than 60 plays during his lifetime. He is the only person to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) for his contributions to literature and an Oscar (1938) for his work on the film Pygmalion.
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
~Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 – 1958)
Kettering was an American inventor and the holder of over 300 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947. Among his most widely used automotive inventions were the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline. He was also responsible for the invention of Freon refrigerant for refrigeration and air conditioning systems for the DuPont Chemical Company.
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
~Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919)
Also known as Teddy Roosevelt, he was the 26th President of the United States. His image stands alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore.
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
~Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 – 1915)
Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He is most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia and was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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
f 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.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
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
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
here 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
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
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