Courage Quotes
Courage is standing up to your fears and doing the thing that challenges and frightens you. Courage pushes you to step out of your comfort zone, take calculated risks and dare to do that thing you dread the most.
Are you looking for motivating courage quotes that will help you be brave in the face of challenges? Our collection of powerful courage quotes will inspire you to be brave and courageous at all times.
65 Powerful Courage Quotes
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”- Baltasar Gracian
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”- Anais Nin
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”- R. G. Ingersoll
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” – Seneca
“It takes courage to take action to achieve your goals especially when others doubt.” Catherine Pulsifer
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not the absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” – Mark Twain
“To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street
“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” ― Anne Frank
“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” – Catherine the Great
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou
“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
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”― E.E. Cummings
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” ― Erica Jong
“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” ― Margaret Mitchell
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” ―Brené Brown
“Courage is grace under pressure.” ― Ernest hemingway
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” ―Steve Jobs
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”― Lao Tzu
“Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.” – Donald Trump
“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”- Maya Angelou
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections.” – Thomas Paine
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
“Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.” – Charles Swindoll
“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.” – Henri Matisse
“Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.” ― Madeleine L’Engle
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius
It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it. – Sue Hadfield
“Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.” – Unknown
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”― William Faulkner
“Courage is found in unlikely places.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” ―Franklin P. Jones
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.” – Daniel J Boorstin
“Without fear there cannot be courage.” ― Christopher Paolini
“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” ― Dr Roopleen
“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”― Pope John Paul II
“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”― Xiaolu Guo
“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”― Ruth Gordon
“Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.”― J.R.R. Tolkien
“It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.”― Renee Ahdieh
“Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.”― Stephen King
“Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you’ll most likely fail even before everything else starts.”― Veronica Mist
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”― Coco Chanel
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”― Nora Ephron
“Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.”― Robert Fanney
“We ought to face our destiny with courage.”― Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” – Horace
“Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it. – Timothy Dalton
“There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.”― Susan Cain
“Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.”― Amit Ray
“Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.”― Brené Brown
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”― André Gide
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”― Jean-Luc Godard
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”― Reginald Rose
“The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.” ― Charles Bukowski
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” – Ovid