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Quotes About Courage

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?
~ James MacDonald
Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
~ Aisha Tyler
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.
~ Ernie Pyle
The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
~ Bertrand Russell
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
~ Les Brown
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
~ Ben Horowitz
You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.
~ Hillary Clinton
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.
~ John Templeton
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.
~ Mark Twain
Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.
~ Gary Zukav
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.
~ Unknown
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.
~ Maya Angelou
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
~ Pema Chodron
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
~ Jonas Salk
Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.
~ Patricia Neal
I believe that the people are looking for a leader who has experience, who has courage, who has vision.
~ Unknown
When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.
~ Paul Michael Glaser
Wisdom comes from intent, experience, and finding courage.
~ Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.
~ George Orwell