65 Courage Quotes To Motivate And Inspire

Courage and Fear

• « Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. He is also a fool. » ― Robert A. Heinlein
• « 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
• « Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action….no matter what. So you’re afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you’re trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway! » ― Richelle E. Goodrich
• « Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at you to fight or flee—and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do. » ― Jim Butcher
• « 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
  
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• « Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. » ― Dale Carnegie
• “Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “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 never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.” — Arthur Koestler

Courage and Strength

• « Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. » ― Napoleon Bonaparte
• « 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
• « Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.  » ― Brooke Foss Westcott
• « Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. » ― August Wilson
• « Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. » ― Winston Churchill
• « 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
• « We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. » ― Barbara De Angelis
• « To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. » ― Criss Jami
• « Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness. » ― Brené Brown

Short Quotes About Courage

• « It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. » ― J.R.R. Tolkien
• « Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. » ― John Wayne
• « Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. » ― Anais Nin
• « A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. » ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
• « Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. » ― Maya Angelou
• “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” — Brené Brown

• “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings
• “The secret to happiness is freedom…and the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides
• “Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse
• “Courage is found in unlikely places.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” — John F. Kennedy
• “Courage is grace under pressure.” — Ernest Hemingway
• “From caring comes courage.” — Lao Tzu
• “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” — Ruth Gordon

Courage and Life

• « Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living. » ― Robert Thier
• « 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
• « Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don’t always have the guts to make it. » ― Ray N. Kuili
• « 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
• « Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.  » ― C.S. Lewis
• « Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. » ― Erica Jong
• « 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,
  
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• “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner
• « Have the courage to say no. 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
• « Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. » ― Maya Angelou
  
  
• “If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” — John Irving
• “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali
• “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” — Amelia Earhart
• “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” — Erma Bombeck
• “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
• “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” — Vincent van Gogh

Courage and Bravery

• “Bravery never goes out of fashion.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
• « Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody. » ― Justin Cronin
• « Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it. » ― Bryce Courtenay
• « We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are. » ― Madeleine L’Engle
• « 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
• « He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. » ― Jean-Luc Godard

• “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” — Stephen King
• « No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. » ― Veronica Roth,
  
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• « 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
• “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” — Paulo Coelho
• “If you want to change things, it requires bravery.” — Naftali Bennett
• “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” — Emma Donoghue
• “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” — Franklin P. Jones
• “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” — Veronica Roth
• “I’m not funny. What I am is brave.” — Lucille Ball
• “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
• “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” — Nora Ephron