1. “It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.” – Giacomo Casanova

2. “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet, if we have the courage to face it.”

3. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Sin

4. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston S. Churchill

5. If we make the mistake of being negative, discouraged, grumpy, or sour, we've wasted the day. Joel Osteen, Daily Readings from Every Day a Friday

6. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt

7. “Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

8. “Valor is stability. not of legs and arms. but of courage and the soul.” – Michel de Montaigne

9. “The Dream is the enemy of all art. courageous thinking. and honest writing.”

10. “The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource. adding color and suspense to all our life.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

11. “He who whets his steel. whets his courage”

12. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt

13. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” ~ W. Clement Stone

14. “Letting go isn’t about having the courage to release the past; it’s about having the wisdom to embrace the present. ” – Steve Maraboli

15. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying. “I will try again tomorrow.”” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

16. It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received. C. S. Lewis

17. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston S. Churchill

18. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. —Muhammad Ali

19. Being an autism dad is more than watching a son with autism grow and develop. Being an autism dad is about being your kid’s best friend, the ultimate mentor and role model, a teacher who always encourages learning new things, an advocate for justice and equality, and a compassionate caregiver (and so much more).

20. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao-Tzu

21. “Courage gives us a voice and compassion gives us an ear. Without both. there is no opportunity for empathy and connection.”

22. “You have plenty of courage. I am sure. ” answered Oz. “All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”

23. Enjoy your Sunday! Have faith in your heart and courage to fulfill all your dreams.

24. “Each time we face our fear. we gain strength. courage. and confidence in the doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt

25. “Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”― Shannon L. Alder

26. “The secret to happiness is freedom … and the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides

27. “Blue collar work is hard work. It takes dedication, courage, and the willingness to put one’s best foot forward in even the most difficult of circumstances. That’s the kind of grit and determination we must never forget.” –John McCain

28. “For all his inner suffering, the narcissist has many traits that make for success in bureaucratic institutions, which put premium on the manipulation of interpersonal relations, discourage the formation of deep personal attachments, and at the same time provide the narcissist with the approval he needs in order to validate his self-esteem.” ~ Christopher Lasch

29. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

30. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” Henry David Thoreau

31. “It’s humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf & tell it to be quiet.” – Jennifer Ritchie Payette

32. Americans are experiencing an epidemic in narcissistic behavior in a culture that is intrinsically self-conscious and selfish, and citizens are encouraged to pursue happiness and instant gratification of their personal desires.” — Kilroy J. Oldster

33. “Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” – Louis D Brandeis

34. “To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts. ” ― Taylor Swift

35. Sometimes, the best encouraging words for a friend feeling down are funny in nature…

36. “We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store. but unless we’re willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives. we will never change. Never. ever.”

37. “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.”

38. The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.” Ellen G. White

39. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

40. “Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.” – Vittorio Alfieri

41. “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

42. “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”

43. “Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.” – Ricky Martin

44. “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

45. “Have the courage to be who you want to be. in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.” – ATGW

46. A good friend will always encourage you to move on in life. But a best friend will help you move a dead body and then encourage you to move on in life. Happy Friendship Day!

47. Tuesday: A day to ask yourself, how much courage do you have? Are you doing your best work? Are you complaining or are you finding solutions? Are you living your dreams?” - Unknown

48. “Do something today that will encourage you to blossom.”

49. “A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.”

50. “Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?”

51. “A simple smile, a cheerful hello or a word of encouragement. It’s amazing what an impact you will have.” – Unknown

52. “Take chances. make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

53. “I’m not a waif-y girl and never will be. I think it’s healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.”

54. “If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” – David Viscott

55. You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served. – Tene Edwards.

56. “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery. in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.” – Veronica Roth

57. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

58. “I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.”– Roald Dahl

59. “Courage. the universal virtue. is comprehended by us all—but these portraits of courage do not dispel the mysteries of politics.”

60. You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.” Tom Hopkins

61. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” Mary Tyler Moore

62. “Courage is the birthplace of confidence”. – Debbie Millman

63. “There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.”

64. “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change. ” – Unknown

65. “I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both.”

66. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” — Charles Dickens

67. “Helping others, encouraging others, are often acts of kindness that have more meaning than you may realize. ” Catherine Pulsifer

68. “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” – Vince Lombardi

69. You may encounter a number of setbacks, but don’t let them discourage you. Never stop looking at the bright side and moving forward in faith. Good morning.

70. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen

71. I’m passionate about encouraging girls to be confident in their own skin.” Sadie Sink

72. “The courage to be yourself in a world constantly trying to shape you is my personal definition of power.”

73. “Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They’re also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy — in fact, that’s where I got the list. ” Milo Yiannopoulos

74. “Everything you need is within you, the strength, the courage and confidence to change your life. You just need to look within yourself and find it.” – Amanda Ray

75. To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

76. “In every crisis. doubt or confusion. take the higher path – the path of compassion. courage. understanding. and love.” – Amit Ray

77. I did not learn about vulnerability and courage and creativity and innovation from studying vulnerability

78. It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

79. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”~ Winston Churchill

80. If you don’t like your destiny don’t accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.

81. “All the appreciation I have been receiving has been very encouraging. It pushes me to do better.” – Armaan Malik

82. “Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light. neither one can exist without the other.” – Wai Lan Yuen

83. “A man of courage never wants weapons.”

84. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

85. “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart. one that can show compassion for others. You are brave. Matthias. Already you have done great things for one so young. I am only a simple country-bred fieldmouse. but even I can see the courage and the leadership in you.”

86. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.

87. The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

88. “Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” – Pericles

89. “Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.” – Amit Ray

90. “Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially your own. No one belongs here more than you.” – Brené Brown

91. “Courage is very important. Like a muscle. it is strengthened by use.” ~ Ruth Gordon

92. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others. ” – Brené Brown

93. “May the God of endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude toward each other, similar to Christ Jesus’ attitude.”

94. “There are two things I judge harshly on. The inability for one to admit when they are wrong, and the lack of courage to say I am sorry.”

95. “Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new.” – Barack Obama

96. “For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.”

97. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus

98. “Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”

99. “A small. quiet. grassroots movement that starts with each of us saying. ‘My story matters because I matter.’ A movement where we can take to the streets with our messy. imperfect. wild. stretch-marked. wonderful. heartbreaking. grace-filled. and joyful lives. A movement fueled by the freedom that comes when we stop pretending that everything is okay when it isn’t. A call that rises up from our bellies when we find the courage to celebrate those intensely joyful moments even though we’ve convinced ourselves that savoring happiness is inviting disaster.”

100. Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Joel Osteen

101. “I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that’s a good person. ” Miranda Kerr

102. “We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.”

103. “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; it’s choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” – Brené Brown

104. “It takes courage to create a meaningful life of integrity. It also requires good company. And practice.” ― Shelley Francis

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

106. "I am a better person because of you. You help me be the best person that I can be and you always encourage me to reach my full potential.

107. My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.” –Carly Fiorina

108. It takes courage and strength to be empathetic, and I’m very proudly an empathetic and compassionate leader. I am trying to chart a different path, and that will attract criticism but I can only be true to myself and the form of leadership I believe in.” — Jacinda Ardern

109. “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” — Maya Angelou

110. “The stories of past courage can define that ingredient—they can teach. they can offer hope. they can provide inspiration.”

111. “Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.”

112. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ”–Walt Disney

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

114. “Authenticity—the courage to be yourself.” – Anonymous

115. Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

116. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou

117. “I did not pray for any relief. but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage. humility and love.”

118. “Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.” – Mary Daly

119. "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."— Winston S. Churchill, former Prime Minister

120. “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.”

121. “It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.” – The Red Pyramid

122. “The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation. especially our own. No one belongs here more than you.”

123. We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”

124. “Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.” – Steve Goodier

125. ”Don’t pity me because I am a single mum. Respect me for having the courage to do it alone, the strength to never give up and the love to put my child’s needs before my own.”- mysinglemummyself.com

126. “The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.” — Serena Williams

127. “Courage is being scared to death … and saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

128. “You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once. But. don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious. and hope can take on a life of its own. - Michelle Obama

129. A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged. Kerry E. Wagner, Never Let Go of My Hand

130. “Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible. — Mike Norton

131. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.” – Brené Brown

132. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure. to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting. for in movement there is life. and in change there is power.”

133. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —e.e. cummings"

134. “You can choose courage. or you can choose comfort. but you cannot choose both.” – Brene Brown

135. “Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as ordinary courage.”

136. “Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.” – H.G. Bohn

137. Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

138. “Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” – Charles Caleb Colton

139. “Whatever course you decide upon. there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

140. “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable. but they’re never weakness.” – Brené Brown

141. Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others. —Brené Brown

142. “True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself.” – Marcela Valladolid

143. Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish. – Jessica N. S. Yourko

144. Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell. — Amal Clooney

145. “Courage is not simply one of the virtues. but the form of every virtue at the testing point…” – C. S. Lewis

146. Softball is a sport of confidence and courage. Nobody gets through life without some adversity, but it’s how you react to that adversity that really matters

147. “If we make the mistake of being negative, discouraged, grumpy, or sour, we’ve wasted the day.” ~ Joel Osteen

148. “The most courageous act is to think for yourself. Aloud.” Coco Chanel, Fashion Designer

149. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

150. “Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” – Jim Davis

151. “Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also chance along with you. It takes hope, good humour, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You’ll both be stronger as a result.” – Craig M. Mullaney.

152. “Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires….courage.”

153. “Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, “Yeah, I’ll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I’ll try it!”” — Brené Brown

154. “We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

155. “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France

156. “Perfection doesn’t exist. and I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous. engaged adults.”

157. “Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” – Dale Carnegie

158. “Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

159. “Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. ” – Ayn Rand

160. “Courage is a heart word.”

161. “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. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin. but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

162. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” ~ Charles Dickens

163. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu, Philosopher

164. I have won the hearts of many. So that matters more than any award. The love of my ‘Nehearts’ – my fans, is more than inspiring and encouraging.” Neha Kakkar

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

166. Silence helps encourage mindfulness.

167. “Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage — it can be delightful.” – George Bernard Shaw

168. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength. while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

169. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ― Coco Chanel

170. "There is a point where courage becomes a symptom of mental illness.”― Wayne Gerard Trotman

171. Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

172. “Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” Mariska Hargitay

173. “So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.”

174. Losing a job, or struggling to find one, can be a major blow to a person’s finances, relationships, and sense of self-worth. It’s definitely a time when encouragement is needed.

175. Words of Encouragement from the Bible

176. “One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.” – Don Quixote

177. Words of Encouragement for Success

178. “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” – Arthur Somers Roche

179. lao tzu quote about love, "being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage"

180. “Real friends don’t throw shade. They encourage. They know your insecurities and inspire you to evolve through kindness, love, and patience.” — Christina Daniels

181. “The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.”

182. “The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”

183. “You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred. ” J. Paul Getty

184. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

185. “We desperately need more leaders who are committed to courageous. wholehearted leadership and who are self-aware enough to lead from their hearts. rather than unevolved leaders who lead from hurt and fear.”

186. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do”. – Eleanor Roosevelt

187. “I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.”

188. “Faith is a place of mystery. where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”

189. “Vulnerability is not weakness. and the uncertainty. risk. and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.”

190. “Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light. neither one can exist without the other.” — Wai Lan Yuen

191. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

192. “Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.”

193. Life is about courage and going into the unknown.

194. "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” —Vince Lombardi"

195. “The root of the word courage is ‘cor’—the Latin word for heart.”

196. “In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm.” – Suze Orman

197. “Encourage yourself. believe in yourself. and love yourself. never doubt who are you.”

198. Plato is saying here that the greatest courage one has is in knowing what to not be afraid of.

199. “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

200. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

201. “Don’t get discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens up the lock.” – John Wooden

202. “My son, you are such an amazing man, and I’m so proud of the incredible way that you are growing up. Even at such a young age, you are full of wisdom, kindness, compassion, and courage.” – Unknown

203. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

204. “Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?” – Marie Antoinette

205. Thank you for being an encouraging and supporting customer. May you provide us with enough opportunities to serve you once again.

206. “Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would” – Vironika Tugaleva

207. “A Dad is one who is always there can always be counted on always has time, always encouraging, that is you Dad, Thanks for all you do!” – C Lynch

208. “I think there are many things that we can do today to make it a better work environment that is more supportive and encouraging of diversity. ” Aileen Lee

209. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ” – Dale Carnegie

210. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves. even when we risk disappointing others.”

211. “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 Raycourage Quotes

212. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt

213. If you don’t try to reclaim the timing that was lost, it means you lack courage or didn’t care enough.” – Unknown

214. “I don’t really want to become normal. average. standard. I want merely to gain in strength. in the courage to live out my life more fully. enjoy more. experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”

215. Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

216. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

217. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.” – Arthur Koestler

218. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” – Erma Bombeck

219. “By separating the autism from the person, are we encouraging our patients’ family members to love an imagined non-autistic child that was never born, forgetting about the real person who exists in front of us?” – Christina Nicolaidis, A Physician Speaks

220. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher

221. “Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.” ― Vironika Tugaleva

222. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

223. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

224. “Authenticity: The courage to be yourself.”

225. On this beautiful Friday morning, I encourage you to take a deep breath and just appreciate life.

226. All my life, I’ve had a fear of being told what to say, so I’m not telling people what to think. I’m encouraging them to say what they think.” Yungblud

227. “In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and squirm and our minds go far away. This can be so uncomfortable that we feel’s it’s impossible to stay. Yet this feeling can teach us not just about ourselves but what it is to be human…we really don’t want to stay with the nakedness of our present experience. It goes against the grain to stay present. These are the times when only gentleness and a sense of humor can give us the strength to settle down…so whenever we wander off, we gently encourage ourselves to “stay” and settle down. Are we experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What’s for lunch? Stay! I can’t stand this another minute! Stay!”

228. “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable. but they're never weakness.”

229. “Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” ~ Dennis Prager

230. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

231. “One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.

232. Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

233. When you are passionate you can be bold because you have that drive, that enthusiasm, that courage, that excitement.

234. William J. Brennan, Jr. Encourages You to Rise Up

235. Take chances, make mistakes–that is how we grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.–Mary Tyler Moore

236. My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings. — Erica Jong

237. If we all were being encouraged and encouraging others, the world would be a far more beautiful place. Just imagine! Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

238. Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.' —Cory Booker

239. “When nobody celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.” – Joel Osteen

240. “Being courageous in solitude. without witnesses. without the prize of a consent. alone in front of oneself. requires great courage and great strength.” – Milan Kundera

241. “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” – Thomas Moore

242. “The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides

243. “We desperately need more leaders who are committed to courageous, wholehearted leadership and who are self-aware enough to lead from their hearts, rather than unevolved leaders who lead from hurt and fear.”

244. “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” ~ Maya Angelou

245. “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – R. G. Ingersoll

246. “Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.” – Vittorio Alfieri

247. True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. Nikos Kazantzakis

248. “Courage is 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

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

250. “You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

251. It is also our responsibility to allow and encourage others to do the same.

252. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou

253. Encourage continued communication sometimes all it takes is a nod of your head or a brief word, or listening sounds. Clive Harman, How to Communicate Effectively

254. “He said we were making this move to learn about bravery and courage. That sounded awfully familiar.”

255. “I scanned the group. Faces spoke to their future. I saw courage. anger. fear and confusion. Others were hopeless. They had already given up.”

256. “Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.” – Dean Koontz

257. “It takes courage to take action to achieve your goals especially when others doubt.” ― Catherine Pulsifer

258. “The best people possess a feeling for beauty. the courage to take risks. the discipline to tell the truth. the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically. their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded. sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway

259. “Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool. and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.” – Piers Anthony

260. “Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction. ” Charles Boustany

261. “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

262. “Sometimes it takes getting pushed to the very edge before you can find your voice and courage to speak out again. Sometimes it takes hitting that rock bottom to realize you're done descending. and it's time to rise. Sometimes it takes being told you're nothing—being made to feel like you're nothing—to help you see that you are complete. You. Are. Enough.”

263. “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee

264. “I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”

265. “The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.” – Daniel Boorstin

266. “To have courage for whatever comes in life—everything lies in that.” – Saint Teresa of Ávila

267. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

268. “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons. whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

269. ¨I'm not a waif-y girl and never will be. I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.¨- Sophia Bush

270. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou

271. “One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.” Carl Sagan

272. “It took vulnerability to forge strength. the way true courage required fear.” – Martina Boone. Persuasion

273. “Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heal, and not wound.” – Unknown

274. "All our dreams will come true if we have the courage to pursue them” – Walt Disney

275. I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it. — Michael J. Fox

276. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”― Lao Tzu

277. “Standing courageously for an unpopular opinion isn’t easy, but the rewards of standing courageously for the truth will last forever.” – Rick Warren

278. “My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.“ – Sara Blakely

279. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Lord Chesterfield

280. “Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” – Albert Camus

281. You are my encouragement and hope in difficult times. I am grateful for your support. Thank you for being there for me, always.

282. “Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.” – Brené Brown

283. Innocence is courage and clarity both. Osho

284. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

285. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

286. Looking for messages of encouragement for a friend who falls in the “best friend” category? Check out this next section:

287. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

288. “Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor—the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.’ Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences—good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as ‘ordinary courage.'” – Brené Brown

289. “’When the seed of Love in your heart is ready to bloom. you will be loved in return. ’ and a strange new courage entered her.”

290. “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”

291. “The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.” – Ruby Dee

292. “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.”

293. Your insight from God’s word encourages and strengthens us. Thank you, sir.

294. “Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose. in the other everything to gain.” – Diane de Poitiers

295. “To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing.” – Will Durant

296. “Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”

297. Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.

298. “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.”

299. “Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.”

300. “People don’t follow titles, they follow courage.” – William Wells Brown

301. Don't just criticize, encourage.

302. Be open enough to see the opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy! Happy Sunday!”

303. “Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try.”

304. A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. - Vince Lombardi

305. The end of a relationship can bring relief, but also a huge life adjustment, and often, a significant dip in happiness for a long time to come. Encourage early and often.

306. "Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." – Thomas Carlyle

307. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”– Maya Angelou

308. “My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that’s where genius lives.” — Robin S. Sharma

309. The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

310. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. . — Harry S. Truman

311. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage. but one is born with potential. Without courage. we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind. TRUE. merciful. generous. or honest.” – Maya Angelou

312. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs, American business magnate.

313. “We can talk about courage, and love, and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we’re willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.”

314. “Enjoy your Sunday! Have faith in your heart and courage to fulfill all your dreams.” – Unknown

315. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

316. Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. —Warren Bennis

317. “Courage is like love. it must have hope for nourishment.”

318. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

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

320. “To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.” – Stephen Baker

321. "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward

322. “We should be encouraging — not penalizing — folks who want to pursue higher education. ” Sharice Davids

323. Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you.

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

325. “Here’s a truth: principled leaders solve moral problems. They have the courage to act rightly. They consistently demonstrate principled conduct under pressure.”

326. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

327. Hard work, honesty, tenacity, and love are just a few of your attributes. Your words of encouragement brightened many of my days and helped sharpen my life for good.

328. “One isn't necessarily born with courage. but one is born with potential. Without courage. we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind. TRUE. merciful. generous. or honest.”

329. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

330. “The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.” – Brene Brown

331. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

332. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou

333. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

334. As believers, we can trust in our loving Savior who restores our brokenness and makes us new and beautiful. We have a Savior who heals and redeems. I encourage you to bring your wounds to Christ and allow Him to heal you and repair your scars. Be open and honest with Him. We doubt God so often. We forget that He cares so deeply about the intimate part of our lives.

335. Teachers encourage minds to think, hands to create and hearts to love.

336. “Make a difference this Tuesday, be an encourager!” ~ Anonymous

337. “Sunday is another opportunity to give hope, encouragement, and comfort to those we meet.” —Byron Pulsifer

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

339. Words of Encouragement for Women

340. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.”

341. “When we combine the courage to make clear what works for us and what doesn’t with the compassion to assume people are doing their best, our lives change.”

342. These authors, speakers, educators, and anonymous wordsmiths have given us words that encourage, words that wisely observe, words we can use to enhance our card of thanks to an educator going the extra mile to teach and empower students.

343. “You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to.”- Big Ramy

344. “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”

345. "Start over, my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to.” -Madalyn Beck

346. The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” —Charles Dickens

347. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” ― Lao Tzu

348. “Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”

349. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”

350. The more we see health as a practice rather than as a problem to fix, the more we encourage the body’s natural potential to be healthy.” – Aarti Patel

351. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

352. “The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us. to forgive us our errors. to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.”

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

354. I have always been one to encourage perseverance.” — Christina Aguilera

355. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others” – Brene Brown

356. “Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.” – Douglas Malloch

357. words to encourage you by Maya Angelou

358. You can “encourage” someone to continue doing what they were already doing:

359. “Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” – Ovid

360. “It takes courage to be yourself. but courage only exists when you fear. Once you are yourself. there is no more fear. no need for courage.”

361. “It takes courage to “join soul and role” in organizations that make it unsafe to show up with integrity and act in alignment with it. But when we find that courage, our lives become more whole, our work reaches deeper, the people we serve are better served, and, in ways large and small, the world becomes a better place.”

362. Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous, I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn’t be scared’… Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

363. Good Words Of Encouragement For A Sick Friend

364. “You are amazing for facing this with so much courage and hope.”

365. “Courage. sacrifice. determination. commitment. toughness. heart. talent. guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.” – Bethany Hamilton

366. “There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.” – Susan Cain

367. It makes me smile and brightens my day more when I think that you pray for me always. You are encouraging and supportive to manage every little thing.

368. “Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again. growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it. you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it. the bag will be empty when you need it most.”

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

370. “Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.” – Gabriele D’Annunzio

371. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

372. Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They’re also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy — in fact, that’s where I got the list.” Milo Yiannopoulos

373. “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” – Richard L. Evans

374. Three positive facts are obvious on Tuesday: Tomorrow allows me another day to demonstrate my worthiness to my employer; it is yet another day to influence those around me with encouragement to handle their own trials; and, it is my day to celebrate each small victory of yesterday.” – Byron Pulsifer

375. Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

376. ”Defeat should not be the source of discouragement. but a stimulus to keep plotting.” - Shirley Chisolm

377. Words of Encouragement for Work

378. “The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.” ― Margaret Mitchell

379. “The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.” – Kalpana Chawla

380. “You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty. for it is not life that matters. but the courage. fortitude and determination you bring to it.”

381. “I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.” – Brené Brown

382. “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”

383. It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back ... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip! - Author: Pope Francis

384. “Courage is contagious. A critical mass of brave leaders is the foundation of an intentionally courageous culture. Every time we are brave with our lives, we make the people around us a little braver and our organizations bolder and stronger.” – Brené Brown

385. “My courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for. a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’” – Lady Gaga

386. “You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.” Tom Hopkins

387. Make a difference this Tuesday, be an encourager!”- Unknown

388. “Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.” — Vironika Tugaleva

389. Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.” ― Stephanie Lahart

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

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

392. “Courage is Grace Under Pressure” – Ernest Hemingway

393. “The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.” – Marianne E.Neifert

394. Words of encouragement "Everything you need to accomplish your goals is already in you"

395. Thank you for your love, support, and encouragement!

396. “It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change. and it takes even more courage to do something about it.” – Sue Hadfield

397. “Courage is like – it’s a habitus. a habit. a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”

398. “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”

399. All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

400. “Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again. growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it. you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it. the bag will be empty when you need it most.” – Conn Iggulden

401. Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there’s really nothing to lose.

402. “It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.” – Saint Francis De Sales

403. “One moment of courage can change your day. One day can change your life. And one life can change the world.” ― Mel Robbins

404. “Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.” – H. G. Bohn

405. Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. - Anonymous

406. “Genius is talent set on fire by courage.” – Henry Van Dyke

407. “Courage is being scared to death. but saddling up anyway.”

408. “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”

409. “One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” — Brigitte Nicole

410. “By separating the autism from the person, are we encouraging our patients’ family members to love an imagined non-autistic child that was never born, forgetting about the real person who exists in front of us?” – Christina Nicolaidis

411. “The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.” – Thomas Aquinas

412. “Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica N. S. Yourko

413. Your courage will grow as a result of pursuing your dreams. Having the courage to pursue your aspirations and your goals is the fuel you need to attain greatness in life. You’ll be a force to be reckoned with in due course.

414. It shouldn’t matter how slowly a child learns as long as we are encouraging them not to stop. Robert John Meehan

415. “I would like to be known as an intelligent woman. a courageous woman. a loving woman. a woman who teaches by being.” – Maya Angelou

416. “Success is not final. failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

417. A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.” — Unknown

418. “Hello? Who’s there? I’m talking? Hello? Who is this? Baxter, is that you? Baxter! Bark twice if you’re in Milwaukee. Is this Wilt Chamberlain? Have the courage to say something! Hello?” – Ron Burgundy

419. But once you notice any symptoms of depression in someone you love, let them know that you’re there for them. If you are near, offer a smile, and even if you are far from them, encourage them by sending messages of hope, love and recognition. It might not cure severe kind of depression completely, but it can be a relief for them to know that you have their back.

420. “Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.” – Emily Greene Balch

421. “May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits” – Harley King

422. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

423. “Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already”

424. Word of Encouragement by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

426. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin

427. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

428. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

429. “From avoiding littering to encouraging local economy, there is a lot each one of us can do that will go a long way in keeping the country’s cultural legacy intact. ” Shenaz Treasury

430. “Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” – Tori Amos

431. “The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know.”

432. “The mark of a wild heart is living out the paradox of love in our lives. It’s the ability to be tough and tender, excited and scared, brave and afraid—all in the same moment. It’s showing up in our vulnerability and our courage, being both fierce and kind.”

433. “When you are passionate you can be bold because you have that drive, that enthusiasm, that courage, that excitement.” — Richard Templar

434. “Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right. It’s called the road less traveled.”

435. “To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.” – Charles Caleb Colton

436. “If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

437. “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.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

438. “You can choose courage. or you can choose comfort. but you cannot choose both.” – Brené Brown

439. “I watched the clips on the news . . . and realized that my brother. in fact. was the most courageous man I knew. because Selma had nothing to do with him. Well. one could argue that it did. a little bit. But he was doing it for us. All of us.”

440. “Sometimes we don't understand the full picture of why we need to do what we feel led to do. Our job is simply to have the courage to honor what our soul is saying.”

441. “For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering. ” Billy Porter

442. We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice. . . She’s always encouraged me, and she’s still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness. – Sheryl Crow

443. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

444. “You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

445. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

446. The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart. The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word. The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.” Pierre de Coubertin

447. It takes courage to be your whole self so you can do your best work

448. “If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love. you have to find the courage to live it.” – John Irving

449. “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. ” —Thomas Moore

450. “Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.”

451. Encourage him as a great father on this special day. "You're the father of our children," is a great thing to write in his father's day card, particularly for new dads.

452. “I want to have goblins about me. for I am courageous.”

453. Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots. Fritz Zwicky

454. True friends can be hard to come by, but they are so important. They’re the people who stand by your side through thick and thin, serve as your go-to travel buddy and often offer you words of encouragement to keep you positive no matter what life throws your way.

455. Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts

456. “Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.” – Hosea Ballou

457. “The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself. in spite of being unacceptable.” – Paul Tillich

458. “It takes courage to say yes to rest and play, in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a symbol status.” – Brene Brown

459. “What is Christmas? It is the tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace." — Agnes M. Pharo

460. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

461. The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. – Brene Brown

462. “Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapidly turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.” – Mark Goulston

463. “When we’re defined by what people think, we lose the courage to be vulnerable. Therefore, we need to be selective about the feedback we let into our lives.”

464. “Whatever you do. you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon. there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories. but it takes brave men and women to win them.”

465. Encouraging Scriptures of Peace to Calm Fear and Anxieties

466. “Perfection doesn’t exist, and I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”

467. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

468. “Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day, begin the task anew.” – Saint Francis de Sales

469. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

470. “To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve – and to do that with a purpose.” Christine Lagarde

471. “Honestly, I have so much respect for single moms or anybody who finds themselves a single mother, but to even choose to be a single mother is just so courageous to me. It is such a hard job to raise a child and be everything to that child without a partner. It’s just admirable and courageous and brave and every other valiant word I can think of. I don’t know if I could do it on my own.” — Jennifer Lopez

472. “Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”

473. “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”

474. “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” – Amelia Earhart

475. “Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.” – Joseph Addison

476. Faith – it makes things possible, not easy. Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

477. Word of Encouragement by Stephen King

478. You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.” Zig Ziglar

479. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

480. Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.” Gordon B. Hinckley

481. Thank you pastor for the encouragement and enriching words that inspire me.

482. “Those who mistrust their own abilities are being too wicked to themselves. discouraging themselves from doing what they should have been excelling in. If you are good at discouraging yourself. you can’t be a good leader because leadership is built on inspiring others to face challenges.” — Israelmore Ayivor

483. “Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool. and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.” – Piers Anthon

484. “Courage is very important. Like a muscle. it is strengthened by use.” – Ruth Gordon

485. “Encourage yourself. believe in yourself. and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.” – Stephanie Lahart

486. “I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.” Queen Elizabeth II

487. “He knew in that instant what he must do: he must prove his courage to himself. and to the others. or he could no longer live in their midst.”

488. “The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.” – Mike Rowe

489. “Courage is like love. it must have hope for nourishment.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

490. “Courage is resistance to fear. mastery of fear – not the absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” – Mark Twain. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson

491. “If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation. ” —Madeleine L’Engle, author

492. Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

493. “People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” – Hermann Hesse

494. “To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.” – Charles Caleb Colton

495. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney"

496. “Courage is the greatest of all virtues because if you haven’t courage. you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” – Samuel Johnson

497. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.”

498. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

499. “Have courage and be kind.”

500. “Mind your own business—the best statement that any wise person can see as encouragement and best advice ever. ” – Unarine Ramaru

501. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. – Jonas Salk

502. “I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” – Catherine II

503. “Have the courage to act instead of react.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

504. “The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself. in spite of being unacceptable.” –Paul Tillich

505. We should be encouraging — not penalizing — folks who want to pursue higher education.” Sharice Davids

506. “You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty. for it is not life that matters. but the courage. fortitude and determination you bring to it.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

507. “I believe that what we regret most are our failures of courage, whether it’s the courage to be kinder, to show up, to say how we feel, to set boundaries, to be good to ourselves. For that reason, regret can be the birthplace of empathy.” – Brené Brown

508. We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

509. “As I’ve had to remind myself, if you have a problem, getting help is a sign of courage, not weakness or failure. With acceptance and humility, I continue to avail myself with the help of so many people and I am grateful to all those who are there for me. I hope down the road I can offer an example to others who are struggling.” - Ben Affleck, actor

510. Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.

511. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” – W. Clement Stone

512. "You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Oprah Winfrey

513. One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.” —Maya Angelou

514. “Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.” – Wendell Phillips

515. “It takes courage to say what has to be said.”

516. You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

517. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” W. Clement Stone

518. “All happiness depends on courage and work.”

519. “Americans are experiencing an epidemic in narcissistic behavior in a culture that is intrinsically self-conscious and selfish, and citizens are encouraged to pursue happiness and instant gratification of their personal desires.” — Kilroy J. Oldster

520. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” — Theodore Roosevelt

521. “Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They’re also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy — in fact, that’s where I got the list.” Milo Yiannopoulos

522. “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” – Agnes M. Pahro

523. "Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

524. “I did not learn about vulnerability and courage and creativity and innovation from studying vulnerability. I learned about these things from studying shame.”

525. Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t. — Gertrude B. Elion, Biochemist and Nobel Prize Winner

526. A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged.

527. “Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.”― Joan Bauer

528. “Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis

529. “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – R.G. Ingersoll

530. “There’s only one requirement of any of us. and that is to be courageous. Because courage. as you might know. defines all other human behavior.” – David Letterman

531. “I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly. we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort. but we can’t have both. Not at the same time. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”

532. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”- Muhammad Ali

533. “For all his inner suffering, the narcissist has many traits that make for success in bureaucratic institutions, which put premium on the manipulation of interpersonal relations, discourage the formation of deep personal attachments, and at the same time provide the narcissist with the approval he needs in order to validate his self-esteem.”

534. “Not a lot of people have the courage to say what they’re actually thinking.”

535. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

536. “Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around… Just get lost and get saved!” – Israelmore Ayivor

537. 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.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

538. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

539. “I have won the hearts of many. So that matters more than any award. The love of my ‘Nehearts’ – my fans, is more than inspiring and encouraging.” Neha Kakkar

540. “Enjoy your Sunday! Have faith in your heart and courage to fulfill all your dreams.”

541. “Don’t pity me because I am a single mum. Respect me for having the courage to do it alone, the strength to never give up and the love to put my child’s needs before my own.” – Anonymous

542. “Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal; it’s the courage to continue that counts. ” –Mike Ditka

543. “Soul sister who has encouraged me to trust my authentic Self, laugh at life’s absurdities, and throw out an ugly suit!” – Bette J. Freedson

544. “Everyone has times when they could use some support or motivation from others. Sometimes you might be the one who does the encouraging and sometimes, just sometimes, you might be the one who needs the encouragement. “

545. “Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.” ~ James Freeman Clarke

546. “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” — Arthur Somers Roche

547. We thank you for your recent Business. it’s great having a Customer such as yourself who encourages and supports.

548. “A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

549. Poems of Encouragement for a Friend

550. ““Mind your own business; The best statement that any wise person can see as encouragement and best advice ever.”― Unarine Ramaru

551. Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. – Stephanie Lahart

552. “The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” — John Bingham

553. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

554. “Success is never final. failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

555. Indeed, words have the power to encourage anyone who is need – not only you but even your friends.

556. “I appreciate you, pastor for the encouraging verse you send me every day, May God bless you abundantly.” — Unknown Author

557. Education is the key which unlocks all your potential. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. We know the degree you’ve worked so hard for will help you in thriving in the field you’ve chosen. We love you so much, congratulations.

558. “You alone. dear lady. gave me the courage and strength to fight the insolent varlet who dared to defy you. The treacherous King of the Mice has been vanquished and lies writhing in his blood. Deign. dear lady. to accept these tokens of victory from the hand of one who will be your true and faithful knight until death.”

559. “Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”

560. “Don’t think that there’s a different, better child ‘hiding’ behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but that’s the goal.” – Claire Scovell LaZebnik

561. “To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.” – Saint Teresa of Avila

562. “Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, “Yeah, I’ll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I’ll try it!”

563. Words of Encouragement for Work or School

564. On this lovely Tuesday! Be solid, and let your heart take courage, all you who hang tight for the LORD! Hello!

565. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” – Aristotle

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

567. “Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper – but in practice, too many break their pledge.” Ban Ki-moon

568. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor. - Aristotle

569. The challenges of dealing with autism are great. You need to know that you can do it and you will find strength and courage from within yourself.

570. “Courage is one step ahead of fear.”

571. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer” – George S. Patton

572. “Now. we must have badly painted the character of our adventure seeker. or our readers must have already perceived that D’Artagnan was not an ordinary man; therefore. while repeating to himself that his death was inevitable. he did not make up his mind to die quietly. as one less courageous and less restrained might have done in his place.”

573. “Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.” -Dave Willis

574. “A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ” Allan Bloom

575. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu

576. “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.”

577. “Don’t think that there’s a different, better child ‘hiding’ behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child.” – Claire Scovell LaZebnik

578. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” -Dale Carnegie

579. “Find the courage to be authentic. Not everyone will like you, but no one can if they don’t get a chance to know you.” – Anonymous

580. “History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” — B.C. Forbes

581. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou

582. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie

583. "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

584. “Have the courage to start a new path this Sunday and a miracle will happen.”

585. “Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.” – Brené Brown

586. “I have no physical courage, I’ve asked for a double.” – Catherine Deneuve

587. Messages like this are a way for mothers to encourage their sons to get a birthday cake that is as amazing as they are.

588. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

589. “It’s only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy, and resolute courage , that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt

590. “Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers. but lack courage. hunger and competitiveness. and your company will go out of business.” – Ben Horowitz

591. “Coming from a single parent household, I witnessed first hand the strength and courage of the single mother. I always had my father in my life, but my household was run by my mother and my grandmother. As a result, I have always had the utmost respect for women and have chosen to strongly convey that in my music.” – Raheem DeVaughn

592. “The wasted time we are ashamed of, the temptations we succumb to, the weakness and discouragement in our work, the disorder and lack of discipline in our thinking and in our dealings with other people—all these very frequently have their cause in our neglect of morning prayer.”

593. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. — Fuchan Yuan

594. “Faced with what is right. to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius

595. "From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress — I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.” — Isabella Rossellini on mom Ingrid Bergman

596. Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France

597. “There is no weakness in being able to love fully. It takes courage. tenacity. and an emotional intelligence that most people are incapable of.” — Alafia Stewart

598. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”

599. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. . —Harry S. Truman

600. Additionally, your words of inspiration and strength need not be limited to your friends and family. With such power to encourage, you can even spread positive vibes in your workplace (or to a friend struggling over his work or business).

601. “Only be you strong. and very courageous. then you will make your way prosperous. and then you will have good success.” – Joshua 1:7-8

602. “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

603. “Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.”

604. “Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

605. “Don’t think that there is a different, better child ‘hiding’ behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but that’s the goal.” – Claire Scovell LaZebnik

606. “You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” ~ J. Donald Walters

607. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Falkner

608. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” Henry David Thoreau

609. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

610. “The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within — strength, courage, dignity.” — Ruby Dee

611. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” —Dale Carnegie, writer

612. There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

613. “Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.” – Timothy Dalton

614. “Dear Pastors, Thank you for the early Sunday mornings and the late Wednesday nights. Thank you for the seeds you plant and disciples you nurture. Thank you for the sermons you preach and the prayers you lift up. Thank you for the wise counsel and the words of encouragement. Thank you for the sacrifice and service.” — Unknown

615. Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward

616. “Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.” – Umberto Eco

617. ¨One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.¨ – Maya Angelou

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

619. You may not have signed up for a hero’s journey, but the second you fell down, got your butt kicked, suffered a disappointment, screwed up or felt your heart break, it started. It doesn’t matter whether we are ready for an emotional adventure—hurt happens. And it happens to every single one of us. Without exception. The only decision we get to make is what role we’ll play in our own lives: Do we want to write the story or do we want to hand that power over to someone else? Choosing to write our own story means getting uncomfortable; it’s choosing courage over comfort.

620. “Courage is universal. It is needed by each of us in every conceivable circumstance.” ― Gus Lee

621. “It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitably lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. This act has been encouraged for centuries and is accepted even now as an important reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your mind.” – Emilie Autumn

622. “Have courage to use your own reason!” – Immanuel Kant

623. On this Lovely Tuesday! Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD! Good Morning!

624. Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

625. “Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom. but it motivates the brave ones. to always win.” – Auliq Ice

626. Sometimes it takes getting pushed to the very edge before you can find your voice and courage to speak out again. Sometimes it takes hitting that rock bottom to realize you’re done descending, and it’s time to rise. Sometimes it takes being told you’re nothing—being made to feel like you’re nothing—to help you see that you are complete. YOU. ARE. ENOUGH. – Mandy Hale

627. “The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.” – Van Wyck Brooks

628. “I know what I want. I have a goal. an opinion. I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman. a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” – Anne Frank

629. Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step. - Mariska Hargitay

630. Set goals for those open hours to maximize your thinking time and use powerful questions to encourage deep thinking.

631. “Within each of us there is the heart of a lion, the courage to simply be who & what we are regardless of others opinions or our own fears. Sometimes this courage has been buried beneath years of shaming that may have been so implicit or insidious that we breathed it in, unaware of how it separated us from knowing our own beauty of being. May we each know our own beauty & right to be today. May we drop down into the heart of the lion within & say to shame, when it rears it’s head, “Not today!”” ~ Oriah Dreamer

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

633. “Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.”

634. Leadership requires the courage to walk in the dark. The darkness is the uncertainty that always accompanies change. The mystery of whether or not a new enterprise will pan out. The reservation everyone initially feels when a new idea is introduced. The risk of being wrong. Andy Stanley

635. “I have won the hearts of many. So that matters more than any award. The love of my ‘Nehearts’ – my fans, is more than inspiring and encouraging. ” Neha Kakkar

636. One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

637. “Courage is resistance to fear, master of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

638. “Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.” Martin Garrix

639. People come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn. And we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them… And we help them in return… Perhaps our reason is to gather strength or courage – whatever we must do to take the next step forward on our path… As you look back upon your life… Think of the times someone was there for you just when you needed them… A hand to hold or comfort given when times were rough… Chances are that person was sent by God!” – Unknown

640. “That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren’t ready, then you weren’t ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.” ― Norah Vincent

641. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore

642. “My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.” — Erica Jong

643. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu

644. Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

645. Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.

646. “Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear. to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee – and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.” – Jim Butcher

647. “Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.” – Nikos Kazantzakis

648. A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. - James E. Faust

649. “Courage is resistance to fear. mastery of fear. not absence of fear.” –Mark Twain

650. “Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because. unless a man has that virtue. he has no security for preserving any other.” – Samuel Johnson

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

652. “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. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win. but sometimes you do.”

653. “We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She’s always encouraged me, and she’s still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness.” —Sheryl Crowe

654. "You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.” – Laura Davis

655. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

656. The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are — without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

657. “Without fear there cannot be courage.”

658. “I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.”

659. "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” —Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

660. "I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey"

661. “Courage results when one’s convictions are bigger than one’s fears.” – Orrin Woodward

662. “A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli

663. “This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all. all men and women. a well of tears. Tears and sorrows; courage and endurance; a perfectly upright and stoical bearing.”

664. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

665. “We celebrate Republic and Independence Days in India to remind us, that our country and its freedom is the result of sweat, patience, persistence, and sacrifice of those with the courage to dream freedom and make it a reality for their future generations.”

666. For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.” Billy Porter

667. “True courage is not ostentatious; men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards. Why do they rely on it. but because they know how potent it is with themselves?”

668. “Black Girls… Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does! Sometimes in life, you won’t always get the encouragement and support that you desire, but don’t allow that to stop you from accomplishing YOUR dreams. You’ve got to learn how to encourage yourself and be happy for yourself in spite of. Everybody won’t be happy for you, and that’s okay. Be happy for yourself and always see the best in yourself! Do it for YOU. Don’t focus on the negative. Negativity is only a distraction. Stay the course and stay focused! Be encouraged and do GREAT things. You’ve got this!”

669. This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.” William Glasser

670. “A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.” ~ Douglas MacArthur , Integrity quotes for leaders

671. A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. – James E. Faust

672. Words of Encouragement for a Happy Life

673. “The only thing I know for sure after all of this research is that if you’re going to dare greatly, you’re going to get your ass kicked at some point. If you choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That’s why we call it courage. That’s why it’s so rare.” – Brené Brown

674. Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

675. “My message to you all is of hope, courage, and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.” Muhammad Ali Jinnah

676. “He makes these decisions with courage. detachment. and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.”

677. “A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or reward that quality in its chosen leaders today.”

678. “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 loved through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

680. “Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” – Harry S. Truman

681. "When you feel like giving up, like calling it quits, just try one more time – do that little bit more. Encourage yourself, rather than discouraging yourself.” – Catherine Pulsifer

682. A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. —John Maxwell

683. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

684. “Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” – Unknown

685. “Parents of children with special needs love their kids and want to do everything they can to encourage their healing, reduce their pain, and improve their quality of life. When parents fail this calling, despite their best efforts, they often struggle with feelings of guilt and grief.” – Gary Chapman & Jolene Philo

686. Encouraging Words For Depressed Friend

687. “Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe. and the heck with everybody.” – Justin Cronin

688. “To be successful we must do things that unsuccessful people do not want to do. Those things require levels of courage.” – R. Harpe

689. “Courage is contagious. A critical mass of brave leaders is the foundation of an intentionally courageous culture. Every time we are brave with our lives. we make the people around us a little braver and our organizations bolder and stronger.”

690. “If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.” — Madeleine L’Engle

691. “I was once afraid of people saying ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am.’” — Oprah Winfrey

692. “Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.” —Booker T. Washington

693. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou

694. “When his regard for himself is so high that his own self-respect demands he follow the path of courage and conscience that all benefit. ”

695. “The opposite for courage is not cowardice. it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” – Jim Hightower

696. “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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin. but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

697. “Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.” – Harriette Hartigan

698. “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest hemingway

699. “You must have the courage of your convictions. Jack. old lad. If you mean ‘Pooh!’ then you must say ‘Pooh!’ and the devil take the consequences.”

700. “Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

701. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."— Walt Disney, founder of Walt Disney World

702. “To speak gratitude is courageous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven” —Johannes Gaertner

703. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

704. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

705. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” –Maya Angelou

706. Even the most successful person makes mistakes. The process of learning from life’s failures isn’t easy, but it can be a good thing for your students to experience. As a teacher, you can’t stop students from struggling, but you can help them discover important lessons while providing the encouragement to carry on.

707. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” — J.K. Rowling

708. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

709. F.R.I.E.N.D.S: Fight For You. Respect You. Include You. Encourage You. Need You. Deserve You. Stand By You.

710. “Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.” – Josephus Daniels

711. "Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, support your ideas, encourage your ambition, and bring out the best in you.”

712. On this wonderful Friday morning, I encourage you to do something that makes you happy. Something that puts a smile on your face and warms your heart.

713. “Life for both sexes—and I look at them. shouldering their way along the pavement—is arduous. difficult. a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything. perhaps. creatures of illusion that we are. it calls for confidence in oneself.”

714. “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery. in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”

715. “I believe that inside every person who is bullied there is a strength and a tenacity to survive. You don’t always know that this strength exists, but if you make it through those dark times, you become aware. You become a survivor, someone whose courage and spirit are far stronger than all of the hate and cruelty of their bullies. The one thing that I want to impart to children with autism is knowledge of their own inner strength and the belief that one day at a time, they, too, can get through this.” – Amy Gravino

716. “It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way. ”― Robert Tew

717. “Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. Its unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.” – John Keegan

718. “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” — Rabindranath Tagore

719. Wishing you peace to bring comfort, courage to face the days ahead, and loving memories to forever hold in your heart. Love, Our deepest sympathies.

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

721. ″‘That may be true,’ said Reason gravely, ‘but you had the courage to try.‘”

722. Stop looking at the end of a relationship as a failure. Leaving it behind can be a courageous choice – and an opportunity for you to be honest and authentic.” – Georgia Kolias

723. “Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” – Confucius

724. “Have the courage to start a new path this Sunday and a miracle will happen.” ~ Anonymous

725. “If you are possessed of Fear. do not waste time trying to ‘kill out’ Fear. but instead cultivate the quality of Courage. and the Fear will disappear.”

726. "Taking positive action means having the courage to act when others might not.” – Jordan Ring

727. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle

728. “Encouraging words are good medicine for the soul. ” Lailah Gifty Akita

729. “To build your confidence and courage, take small risks where you have a good chance of succeeding.” ― Irene Roth

730. Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

731. “Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it.” — Madalyn Beck

732. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.”

733. Encouraging Words for Your Best Friend

734. “Finally, brothers and sisters, good-bye. Put things in order, respond to my encouragement, be in harmony with each other, and live in peace—and the God of love and peace will be with you.”

735. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

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

737. “Courage is fire. and bullying is smoke.” – Benjamin Disraeli

738. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.. – Lao-Tzu #RelationshipGoals

739. “It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.” – Pablo Casals

740. “Trade weakness for power, trade doubt for confidence, trade fear for courage. Trade softball for nothing.”

741. “Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.” – David Ben-Gurion

742. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Christopher Columbus

743. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. ” –Mary Anne Radmacher

744. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston Churchill

745. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ” ― Maya Angelou

746. A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

747. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying. “I will try again tomorrow.”

748. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear. but the triumph over it. I felt fear more times than I can remember. but I hid it. a mask of boldness. The brave man is not to he who does not feel afraid. but he who conquers that fear.”

749. “it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”

750. “Your time is limited. so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly. have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

751. “Maria. though decidedly vain and much too inquisitive. was possessed of the fine qualities of honour and courage and fastidiousness. and Miss Heliotrope was entirely made of love and patience.”

752. “Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’”

753. “Self-control is the chief element in self-respect. and self-respect is the chief element in courage.” – Thucydides

754. Message Of Encouragement To A Friend (Words Of Encouragement To A Friend Feeling Down)

755. “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears. for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage. the courage to suffer.”

756. Uplifting Words of Encouragement to a Friend Feeling Down

757. “The deepest love, you can get from someone is when they give you endless love, patience and support, all while encouraging you to grow.” – Unknown

758. Encouraging you to be the best no matter what your job!

759. Thoughtful mothers can use this birthday message to encourage their son to follow his dreams.

760. You are brave, courageous and strong for continuing to fight an illness that nobody else can see.

761. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato

762. So much of what we hear today about courage is inflated and empty rhetoric that camouflages personal fears about one’s likability, ratings and ability to maintain a level of comfort and status. We need more people who are willing to demonstrate what it looks like to risk and endure failure, disappointment and regret—people willing to feel their own hurt instead of working it out on other people, people willing to own their stories, live their values and keep showing up.

763. “I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger. and a mental willingness to endure it.” – William Tecumseh Sherman

764. “All your dreams can come true f you have the courage to purse them.” — Walt Disney

765. “He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust

766. “When we encourage new parents to ‘treasure these moments because they don’t last forever,’ we need to remember to also reassure them that they will survive these moments because they don’t last forever.” – L.R. Knost

767. I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve. —Maya Angelou

768. “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one. I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.” – Mahatma Gandhi

769. “Necessity does the work of courage.” – Nicholas M. Butler

770. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” — Maya Angelou

771. “Honoring the strength and courage of blue-collar workers everywhere!” – Unknown

772. “Whatever may happen. it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!” – Bram Stoker

773. “Success is not final. failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

774. “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.” – John F. Kennedy

775. “It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we’re wrong is courage. not weakness.”

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

777. We can only experience the true beauty of vulnerability when we're courageous enough to crack open the fractures in our mask and allow the light to shine in. — Alicya Perreault

778. Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts. -Winston Churchill

779. “Have the courage to be who you want to be. in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.” ATGW

780. “What is Christmas? It is the tenderness of the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future." ―Agnes M. Pahro

781. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear. do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie

782. My heartfelt thanks for the raise and for recognizing my efforts and hard work. Being recognized and appreciated by you is something that will make me very productive and encourage me to improve myself.

783. “I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it. ” Terry Pratchett

784. Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. -Dean Koontz

785. As you grew, we encouraged you to be open and direct. As you leave, never lose your honesty with those whom you speak. – Catherine Pulsifer and Byron Pulsifer

786. Start over, my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to. – Madalyn Beck

787. “When we least expect it. life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment. there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” – Paulo Coelho

788. You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’

789. You my brother have always been a support in my life, you have always had encouraging words for me as a child and now into our adult years. I know I can always count on you being there. What would I ever do without you! - Catherine Pulsifer

790. “If you don’t like your destiny don’t accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.” – Naruto Uzumaki

791. "Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it."— Barack Obama

792. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt