Every once in a while we just need these reminders of encouragement. Here are 45 completely awe-inspiring quotes about courage and strength.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
winston s. churchill
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
e. e. cummings
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
veronica roth
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
maya angelou
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
coco chanel
“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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
eleanor roosevelt
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
roy t. bennett
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
william faulkner
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
friedrich nietzsche
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
mahatma gandhi
quotes about courage and strength
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
albert camus
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.”
Christian d. larson
“To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power.”
arundhati roy
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
roy t. bennett
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
anais nin
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
john a. shedd
“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.”
eric roth
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
mark twain
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
j.r.r tolkien
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
marcus aurelius
quotes about courage and strength
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
corrie ten boom
“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
mother teresa
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
“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
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
walt disney company
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”
t.s. eliot
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
seneca
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
napoleon bonaparte
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
ann landers
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
bruce lee
quotes about courage and strength
“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
sabaa tahir
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
ernest hemingway
“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. God is awake.”
victor hugo
“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
sherwood anderson
“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
john irving
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
veronica roth
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy – the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
brene brown
“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!”
c. joybell c.
“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
shusaku endo
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
ernest hemingway
quotes about courage and strength
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
kahlil gibran
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
steve maraboli
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
oprah winfrey
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”
susan gale
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
joshua graham
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it’s going on when you don’t have the strength.”
theodore roosevelt
