You Are More Courageous than You Think

Courage—the mental and moral strength that enables you to face, withstand, and persevere through fear, danger, and difficulty


Everyone exhibits varying degrees of courage every single day. For someone extremely ill, getting out of bed and dealing with the pain of disease is courageous. A single mother working two jobs to make ends meet while still finding time to share a laugh with her kids is courageous. A student standing up for someone being bullied even though he may become the focus of ridicule himself is courageous.

You are courageous in so many ways. You get up every day and go to work or school, facing myriad problems and challenges there. You may have a brain-numbing or relentlessly challenging job, but you get up and go to it every day. Your boss may be a tyrant. The pay may stink. But still you go.

You study, you work, you help around the house. You face your problems head on. You ask for help when you need it. You stand up for what you believe in. You take responsibility for your actions. You live with integrity.

You are courageous.


Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
—John Quincy Adams

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid…
—Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV Bible

Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man in the storm prays to God not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always do what you are afraid to do.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom lies in being bold.
—Robert Frost

The best way out is always through.
—Robert Frost

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
—Mahatma Gandhi

Take the breath of the new dawn and make it part of you. It will give you strength.
—Hopi Saying

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
—Anaïs Nin

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.
—Lao Tzu