15 Courage Quotes to Restore Your Passion
Your Prosperity and Activation of Each Moment
by Julie Jordan Scott
My recent reading companions have been two books, both by Thomas Stanley.
One is "The Millionaire Next Door" and the other is "Millionaire Mind." Both books teach about the attributes and qualities of the wealthy across the United States.
I was especially interested to discover how the majority of the Millionaire's in Mr. Stanley's study found how many of the very wealthy cultivate a strong, healthy dose of courage in order to be successful.
This week I have used courage as my theme or focus. Included in that focus was the study of quotes from some of the wisest thinkers across history and cultures.
I have compiled a list for you to use to hone in, not only on the "what is courage" or "the facts of courage" but also so that you can come to understand and know courage through application of boldness and bravery in each aspect of your life.
I would be remiss if I didn't make several suggestions as to how to use these quotes. Please try the ideas one at a time to see what strategies work in actuality rather than in theory alone.
1. Take one quote a day and make an index card sized poster and put a different quote on your computer monitor every day. Throughout the day, turn back to the quote and allow it to penetrate your mind and heart.
2. Read one of the quotes out loud three times first thing in the morning and then read it again at night before going to sleep. Put the quote in the form of a question and allow that question to be your object of wonder as you fall asleep.
Here is an example:
Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
~ Anais Nin ~
Ask this question:
Where does is my life asking me to expand with courage?
3. Turn the quote into an affirmation and repeat the affirmation as you walk or work out.
The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
~ Patrick Henry ~
Affirm in rhythm to your movements:
I am active, I am vigilant, I am brave.
I am active, I am vigilant, I am brave.
I am active, I am vigilant, I am brave.
4. Use your creativity to dive more deeply into the courage within the quote.
Write the quote across the top of a blank page (or on the top of a document) and simply write your response to it.
One caveat: intend to stay focused on the light -the courage - and do not unconsciously fall into a writing with fear as the focus.
Now - take these ideas and read these quotes from a heartful, open space and begin to attract and develop even more courage than you have right now.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.
~ Maxwell Maltz ~

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place it leads.
~ Erica Jong ~

The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
~ Patrick Henry ~

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them.
~ Walt Disney ~

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhardt ~

Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
~ Anais Nin ~

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

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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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 have 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 ~

It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in."
~ Erma Louise Bombeck ~

I learned that courage was 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 ~

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~ e.e. cummings ~

You can't test courage cautiously.
~ Anne Dillard ~

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
~ Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill ~
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