Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
You have to have fear in order to have courage.
Sep 10, 2025
We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.
You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream.
Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.
You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
You don't have wisdom for tomorrow's problems. But you will tomorrow. You don't have resources for tomorrow's needs. But you will tomorrow. You don't have courage for tomorrow's challenges. But you will when tomorrow comes.
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.
For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
I hope you live a life you're proud of...
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.
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.
I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
If you want to be holy, if you seek meaning in your life, start looking into your own life and attacking your pride in all of its many forms. God will give you extraordinary light and the ultimate reward of holiness. For your holiness relies not on what you do, but on what you allow God to do through you. Have courage. God will perfect you.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.