Courage Quotes
These best courage quotes are meant for everyone who wants to become a better person and make this world a better place.
It was once said that courage was not the absence of fear but overcoming it.
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Best Quotes About Courage
1.) It is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Horace
2.) Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Steve Jobs
3.) 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
4.) Courage is found in unlikely places.
J.R.R. Tolkien
5.) 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
Courageous Quotations
6.) He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
7.) There’s something that compels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
Maya Angelou
8.) Courageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela
9.) Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
10.) You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
Gabby Douglas
11.) It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
12.) Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
Heroic Sayings
13.) Heroes are never perfect, but they’re brave, they’re authentic, they’re courageous, determined, discreet, and they’ve got grit.
Wade Davis
14.) The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
15.) I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.
Ronda Rousey
16.) Fortune always favors the brave and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. Barnum
17.) Because of great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
18.) To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
St. Catherine of Siena
19.) You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
John Lewis
20.) I kind of think of my life as this incredible hurricane of so many adventures. We can all make a difference, and we can all be courageous and believe in ourselves.
Bindi Irwin
Insights on Strength
21.) A firm tree does not fear the storm. Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Japanese Proverb
22.) With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
23.) Little strokes fell great oaks.
Ben Franklin
24.) The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
25.) Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
26.) Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
Short Courage Quotes
27.) Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
28.) The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
29.) It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
30.) Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
31.) We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
32.) I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great
33.) Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
34.) The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
R. G. Ingersoll
Good Courage Quotes
35.) That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
36.) Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill
37.) In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
38.) Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
39.) 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
40.) 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
Fearless Quotations
41.) You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
42.) A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
43.) Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
Susan Gale
44.) Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah Winfrey
45.) 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.
Chris Bradford
47.) 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
48.) 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
Be Strong
49.) Strong people don’t put people down. They lift them up!
Unknown
50.) You’ve got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.
Tilman J. Fertitta
51.) Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
Misty Copeland
52.) You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
Cayla Mills
53.) You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Ken Kesey
54.) You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.
Unknown
55.) There are so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist, and we’re going to get through it. Just be strong.
Mary J. Blige
56.) Be strong. Things will get better. It might be stormy now, but the rain won’t last forever.
Unknown
57.) Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras – Check out more Pythagoras Quotations.
58.) Be strong when you are weak, brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.
Unknown
Courage Quotes
59.) You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
60.) All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
61.) You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.
Brené Brown
62.) Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
63.) Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
64.) All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale
65.) 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
66.) The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides
Bravery Quotes
67.) It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling
68.) 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, The Light in the Heart
69.) You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Roy T. Bennet
70.) A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
Lao Tzu
71.) Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee
72.) It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
73.) 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, Pride and Prejudice
74.) Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
75.) Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
Queen Latifah
Closing Thoughts
Living life as a brave man or woman can help you make the most of it.
Great men and women have always emphasized that the greatest virtues in life cannot be enjoyed without courage. When you are courageous, everything becomes possible.
Being courageous isn’t about being assertive. Being courageous also means being more generous, merciful, and faithful.
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 dealing with wordplay.
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