Quotes about Courage
Our quotes about courage inspire those facing challenges in their lives.
Someone once said, “People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.” Courage is the virtue of all virtues. Without it, you cannot follow your dreams, build your skills, or achieve anything in your life.
It never hurts to have all the courage in this world. Here are some famous, inspiring quotes about courage that will get you moving and making a difference in every field and stage of life!
Courage Quotes
1.) Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
2.) Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
3.) It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
J.K. Rowling
4.) Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.
Emma Donoghue
5.) Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
6.) Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston S. Churchill
7.) Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
Maggie Kuhn
8.) It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
9.) Courage is not living without fear. Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway.
Chae Richardson
10.) Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now but it can’t rain forever.
Hailee
11.) You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
12.) There is no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bear witness that a man has the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
Victor Frankl
Good Courage Quotes
13.) Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
Susan Gale
14.) 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.
Leah LaBelle
15.) Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
Seneca
16.) 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
17.) Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
Unknown
18.) Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
19.) It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
20.) The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all.
Unknown
21.) Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Chinese Proverb
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Short Courage Quotes
22.) Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not the absence of fear.
Mark Twain
23.) Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
Michael Jordan
24.) You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.
Robin Sharma
25.) Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.
Sarah Dessen
26.) It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
27.) The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all.
Unknown
28.) From caring comes courage.
Lao Tzu
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Courageous Quotations
29.) When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Jan Smuts
30.) He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
31.) The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.
Harriet Lerner
32.) We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
David Seabury
33.) Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
34.) At every crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your heart lead the way.
Thomas Leland
35.) You become courageous by doing courageous acts… Courage is a habit.
Mary Daly
36.) It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela
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37.) You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise, you’ll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
Francis Ford Coppola
38.) The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behavior.
Laura Dern
39.) Wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown.
John O’Donohue
40.) I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.
Ronda Rousey
41.) Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.
Anita Roddick
42.) Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
Steve Pavlina
43.) Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they’re handed, and that seems courageous to me.
Judith Guest
Inspirational Quotes About Courage
44.) 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.’
Eleanor Roosevelt
45.) You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus
46.) Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
47.) It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
48.) 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
Courageous and Brave Quotes
49.) 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
50.) Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
51.) It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.
Roy T. Bennett
52.) He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
53.) No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life.
Cicero
54.) Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André Gide
55.) The opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower
Wise Words
56.) Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
57.) 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
58.) The secret to happiness is freedom…and the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides
59.) 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
60.) 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
61.) Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
62.) It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes on Courage
63.) Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Courage breeds creativity.
64.) Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look the other way.
65.) Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live.
66.) We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
67.) Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
68.) If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving; you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today, I still have a dream.
69.) Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
70.) Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
71.) The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
To Kill a Mockingbird Courage Quotes
72.) 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.
73.) Nothing’s real scary except in books.
74.) It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
75.) You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fightin’ with your head for a change.
76.) You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
77.) Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
78.) Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.
79.) Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.
80.) The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Quotes About Courage
81.) Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
82.) The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
R. G. Ingersoll
83.) 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.
Jane Austen
84.) Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
85.) 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
86.) To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
87.) A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
William G.T. Shedd
88.) Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
89.) Courage is a love affair with the unknown.
Osho
90.) Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.
Dodinsky
91.) He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more, but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
92.) Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courageous Quotes
93.) Part of being a man is about taking responsibility
Nathan Hayes
94.) So where are you, men of courage? Where are you, fathers who fear the Lord? It’s time to rise up and answer the call that God has given to you and to say I will.
Adam Mitchell
95.) Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. He is also a fool.
Robert A. Heinlein
96.) Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler
97.) I have heard many people say who have lost a loved one that, in some ways, it is like learning to live with an amputation. You do heal, but you are never the same.
Pastor Hunt
98.) Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
Ruth Gordon
99.) Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Brene Brown
100.) From caring comes courage.
Lao Tzu
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He’s the author of Best Sports Slogans and Captions. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and authored four books on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market — most of them dealing with wordplay.
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