The Best Courage Quotes for the Brave
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. 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. There are many aspects to it. It also makes you more generous, merciful, and faithful. Share these courage quotes with friends and loved ones to make them feel better.
Quotes About Courage
It is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Horace
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Steve Jobs
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
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Courageous Quotations
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
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
Courageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
Gabby Douglas
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
Heroic Sayings
Heroes are never perfect, but they’re brave, they’re authentic, they’re courageous, determined, discreet, and they’ve got grit.
Wade Davis
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.
Ronda Rousey
Fortune always favors the brave and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. Barnum
Because of great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
St. Catherine of Siena
You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
John Lewis
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
A firm tree does not fear the storm.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Japanese Proverb
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Ben Franklin
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Good Courage Quotes
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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
Fearless Quotations
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
Susan Gale
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah Winfrey
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
Be Strong
Strong people don’t put people down. They lift them up!
Unknown
You’ve got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.
Tilman J. Fertitta
Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
Misty Copeland
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
Cayla Mills
You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Ken Kesey
You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.
Unknown
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
Be strong. Things will get better. It might be stormy now, but the rain won’t last forever.
Unknown
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras – Check out more Pythagoras Quotations.
Be strong when you are weak, brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.
Unknown
Courage Quotes
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.
Brené Brown
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale
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
The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the editor of Greeting Card Poet and compiled this list of quotes.
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