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

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” ~ Billy Graham

“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

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

“Success 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

“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”  ~  Erica Jong

“A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for.” ~ Albert Einstein

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

“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ~ Katherine Dunham

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” ~ Anna Freud

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” ~ Gilbert K Chesterton

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

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ~ Maya Angelou

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.” ~ Vincent van Gogh

“You have power over your mind―not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”  ~ Marcus Aurelius

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” ~ Vivian Greene

 “Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ~ Katherine Dunham

Inner strength is measured by what we can bear and how long” ~ Invajy

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” ~ Bob Marley

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”  ~ Seneca

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~ Mother Teresa

““What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” ~ Otto Rank

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” ~ Napoleon Hill

Silence is a source of great strength. ~ Lao Tzu

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.” ~ John Bradshaw

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself’.” ~ Mariah Carey

“They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.” ~ Curtis Joseph

“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” ~ Paulo Coelho

““With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”  ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.” ~ Lao Tzu

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” ~ Edmund Hillary

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” ~ Walt Disney

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill

“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

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou

Even the darkest tunnel has an end and soon their will be light”. ~Invajy

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” ~ Ovid