75 Quotes About Courage

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others.

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure. It just means you haven't succeeded yet.

I’ll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

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

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

Today is what the Lord has prepared you for.

Alleged impossibilities are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth, you regain your perspective and find renewed strength.

If there be, therefore, perpetual failure in your life, it cannot arise from any weakness or impotence in the Mighty God; but from some failure on your part. That failure may probably be discovered in one of three hiding places--imperfect surrender, deficient faith; or neglected communion. But when the intention of the soul is right with God, without doubt He will save.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.

Nothing but encouragement can come to us as we dwell upon the faithful dealing of our Heavenly Father in centuries gone by. Faith in God has not saved people from hardships and trials, but it has enabled them to bear tribulations courageously and to emerge victoriously.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

What a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

It was well done of Paul to reprove Peter to his face, and it was well done of Peter, to praise Paul in his absence.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as the angels give.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

O take heed of this squint eye to our profit, pleasure, honor, or anything beneath Christ and heaven; for they will take away your heart - that is, our love, and if our love be taken away, there will be little courage left for Christ.

Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.

If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.

Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face.

We are invincible in Christ!

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

He will never ever fail us.

The valleys are necessary for us to grow up in the Lord.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.