You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!” ~ Brene Brown

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” ~ Steve Jobs

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” ~ Earl Nightingale

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” ~ Hermann Hesse

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” ~ EM Forster

Like a kite courageous person always rises and achieves new highs going against the wind.” ~ Invajy

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”  ~ E.E. Cummings

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~  William Faulkner

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”  ~  J.K. Rowling

“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”  ~ Emma Donoghue

“Don’t feel defeated if your dreams didn’t work out. It took courage to try and take the risk. That’s something to be proud of.” ~ Amanda Ray

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”~ Hermann Hesse

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” ~ Franklin P. Jones

“The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost

“Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” ~ Lana Del Rey

“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”~ William Ellery Channing

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”~ Khalil Gibran

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”~ Vincent Van Gogh

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”~ Criss Jami

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” ~ Paulo Coelho

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” ~ Peter Marshall

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” ~ Thomas A. Edison

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” ~ Jodi Picoult

“We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” ~ Isabel Allende

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”~ J.K. Rowling

“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.”~ Demi Lovato

“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”~ Louisa May Alcott

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”~ Maya Angelou

“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”~ Paulo Coelho

“Strength is a matter of a made up mind.” ~ John Beecher

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

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr