Quotes about Courage
Our quotes about courage provide inspiration for 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.
A man who has lost his courage has lost everything. It is the most basic ‘ingredient’ required to live and succeed. So make sure you have unlimited courage.
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
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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
Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.
Emma Donoghue
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston S. Churchill
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
Maggie Kuhn
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
Courage is not living without fear.
Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway.
Chae Richardson
Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now but it can’t rain forever.
Hailee
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
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
Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
Susan Gale
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
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
Seneca
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
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
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all.
Ashley L.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Chinese Proverb
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Best Courage Quotes
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not the absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
Michael Jordan
You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.
Robin Sharma
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
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.
Sarah Dessen
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Courageous Quotations
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Jan Smuts
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.
Harriet Lerner
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
David Seabury
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
At every crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your heart lead the way.
Thomas Leland
You become courageous by doing courageous acts…Courage is a habit.
Mary Daly
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Fortitude Sayings
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
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behavior.
Laura Dern
Wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown.
John O’Donohue
I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.
Ronda Rousey
Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.
Anita Roddick
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
Steve Pavlina
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
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes on Courage
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Courage breeds creativity.
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.
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.
We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
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.
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.
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
To Kill a Mockingbird Courage Quotes
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.
Nothing’s real scary except in books.
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.
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.
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.
Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.
Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Quotes About Courage
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
R. G. Ingersoll
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
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
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
William G.T. Shedd
Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is a love affair with the unknown.
Osho
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.
Dodinsky
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more, but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courageous Movie Quotes
Part of being a man is about taking responsibility
Nathan Hayes
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
I don’t feel like I started well. I want to finish well.
Adam Mitchell
You know, if fathers just did what they’re supposed to do, half of the junk that we face on the streets wouldn’t exist.
Nathan Hayes
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
A father should love his children and seek to win their hearts. He should protect them, discipline them, and teach them about God.
Adam Mitchell
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