Courage Quotes and Sayings
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Fortune favours the brave.
Terence
Fear and courage are brothers.
Proverb
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George Sheehan
True courage is a result of reasoning.
Jeremy Collier
And though hard be the task,
‘Keep a stiff upper lip.’
Phoebe Cary
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
William Shedd
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Dan Rather
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men, but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
Edna Ferber
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Charles Kennedy
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
John F. Kennedy
A man of courage never wants weapons.
Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
Inside courage laughs fear.
Jareb Teague
You can’t test courage cautiously.
Anne Dillard
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.
Anonymous
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
Robert Coles
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy
The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
Thucydides
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce
Another word for creativity is courage.
George Prince
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
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Tom Krause
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Dr. Robert Anthony
Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.
Winston Churchill
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
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
Who dares, wins.
Anonymous
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
John Maxwell
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke
To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
Janeane Garofalo
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
Count your smiles instead of your tears; Count your courage instead of your fears.
Anonymous
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
Anonymous
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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
It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so.
Mark Twain
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus