Please enjoy these beautiful courage quotes. I hope they will help you find the strength to overcome the challenges you’re facing today. And remember: you can do more than you think. Keep going!
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. Erica Jong
Where your fear is, there is your task. Carl Jung
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it. Erica Jong
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. G.K. Chesterton
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill
The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be. Dalai Lama
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground. Rosa Parks
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles DuBois
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. Brené Brown
Do you have the courage to act outwardly on what you see inwardly. T.D. Jakes
Courage means doing what’s right no matter what they say. Maxime Lagacé
Courage is a love affair with the unknown. Osho
First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events. Marie Curie
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent van Gogh
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The Best Courage Quotes
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. Erica Jong
Amateurs are scared – scared to be vulnerable and honest with themselves. Professionals feel like they are capable of handling almost anything. Shane Parrish (fs.blog)
Lean into (not away from) what’s making you uncomfortable. Shane Parrish
Will you dare to try and learn and grow? Or will you allow fear to take over? Life happens in the river, not on the shore. Maxime Lagacé
Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what? Marcus Aurelius
I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time. Brené Brown
It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life. Paulo Coelho
Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. Pema Chödrön
Accept in an unruffled spirit that which is inevitable. Seneca
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. Rabindranath Tagore
The best way to neutralize our natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain – like an athlete, you come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the easy way out. Robert Greene
The only alternative to a shuddering paralysis is to leap into action regardless of the consequences. Alan Watts
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 (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Having lived the life I’ve lived, and having seen the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me, has made me happy. David Goggins
Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be. David Goggins
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. Catherine the Great
The hard choices – what we most fear doing, asking, saying – these are very often exactly what we most need to do. Tim Ferriss
Think of yourself as an explorer. You cannot find anything new if you are unwilling to leave the shore. Robert Greene
Understand: we are all too afraid – of offending people, of stirring up conflict, of standing out from the crowd, of taking bold action. Robert Greene
You can choose to let this thing bother you or let this be an adventure and welcome the challenge. Fred Rogers
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
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower
To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. Jordan Peterson
Don’t avoid something frightening if it stands in your way. Jordan Peterson
Our fear of messing up should give way to the only real danger there is, that of never trying. Alain de Botton
What Is Courage?
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist
Courage is seeing too much comfort will make you weak. Maxime Lagacé
Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart”. Brené Brown (I Thought It Was Just Me)
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar. Osho
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Part 2. Courage Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Courage Quotes
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain
Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day. Napoleon Bonaparte
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anaïs Nin
Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi
Too many men are afraid of being fools. Henry Ford
We ought to face our destiny with courage. Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. Friedrich Nietzsche
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. Michel de Montaigne
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition. Steve Jobs
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. Nelson Mandela
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
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy
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
Short Courage Quotes
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Freedom lies in bold action. Robert Frost
Courage, dear heart. C.S. Lewis (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)
Choose courage over comfort. Brené Brown (Dare to Lead)
A king is one who fears nothing. Seneca
The scared freeze. The brave try. Maxime Lagacé
All serious daring starts from within. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is the only virtue you can’t fake. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. Winston Churchill
What is to give light must endure burning. Viktor E. Frankl
No man is defeated unless he is discouraged. Bruce Lee
Nobody learns what he can do except by trying. Seneca
I won’t be intimidated, and I won’t be silenced. Meena Harris
Getting over yourself offers exponential returns. Shane Parrish
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. Bernadette Devlin
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. E. M. Forster
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm
Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage. Brené Brown
It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you. David Goggins (Can’t Hurt Me)
Don’t let not knowing how it will end keep you from starting. Bob Goff
Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid. At the exact same time. Brené Brown (Dare to Lead)
Inspirational Courage Quotes
No one knows what he can do till he tries. Publius Syrus
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. Dale Carnegie
My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. Wim Wenders
Self-knowledge leads to purpose. Purpose leads to motivation. Motivation leads to action. Taking action is brave. Maxime Lagacé
While you don’t control the outcome, you do control the effort. Shane Parrish
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. Charles Swindoll
Be bold. Be courageous. Never be afraid to speak up and speak out. John Lewis
Change is often a silent inside job that requires patience and courage. Courage to be your self. Courage to resist negativity. Courage to go beyond your boundaries. Courage to take responsibility for your own life. Gordana Biernat
A savage mindset is a conditioned mindset that knows quitting is not part of the plan. It knows that it has to find a way around any and all obstacles to complete the mission. Stay hard! David Goggins
If you want to be one of the few to defy those trends in our ever-softening society, you will have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity, which requires an open mind. David Goggins (Can’t Hurt Me)
Don’t limit expectations of yourself and settle for anything less than what you are truly capable of achieving. David Goggins
To improve at something, consistently put yourself in an uncomfortable place. Start a startup, train for a marathon, or commit to writing every day. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Sahil Lavingia
Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you’ve chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it. Maya Angelou
Start living in discomfort. Gradually increase it little by little, and you will steadily grow. If you want sudden growth, deluge yourself in great discomfort and do not retreat from it. The more discomfort you are willing to bear, the more you can grow. The Ancient Sage
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen
The sun will stand as your best man and whistle, when you have found the courage to marry forgiveness, when you have found the courage to marry love. Hafez
“Brave” is the only thing that I ask myself to be. Brave to write, to love, to face criticism, to live according my own rules. Paulo Coelho
There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good. Jordan Peterson
People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. Jordan Peterson
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Funny Courage Quotes
If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback. Brené Brown
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. Benjamin Franklin
Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all. Malcolm Gladwell (David and Goliath)
Remember, you can’t steal second if you don’t take your foot off first. Mike Todd
Deep Courage Sayings
Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. Erica Jong
Trying to run away is never the answer to being fully human. Pema Chödrön
Only those who can accept their own annihilation can have the courage to be true individuals. Alan Watts
The stronger your principles and values, the more you’re willing to die for them. Maxime Lagacé
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. G.K. Chesterton
Free people can speak freely. If you fear to speak, you aren’t free. The Stoic Emperor
Your fear of looking stupid is holding you back. Justin Perry
One who asks fearfully teaches us to say no. Seneca
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Delmore Schwartz
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
The frontier is the edge between what you know and what you don’t know. You want to put yourself on that edge. Jordan Peterson
People are weak because when challenged, they opt for the path of least resistance. Taking the path of least resistance makes them weaker still and thus more likely to opt for the path of least resistance again in the future. It’s a deadly cycle. Zuby
Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. Steven Pressfield
The pain of trying and failing is intense and over rather quickly. The pain of failing to try, on the other hand, is less intense but never really goes away. Shane Parrish
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Søren Kierkegaard
Bliss is the outcome of fearlessness. Fear is death, fearless is eternal life. Osho
Wise Courage Sayings
There is only the trying. The rest is not our business. T. S. Eliot
Necessity makes even the timid brave. Sallust
The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. Pema Chödrön
The average man lets fear take over. The wise man feels the fear and do it anyway. The average man has regrets. The wise man none. Maxime Lagacé
Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child. Soyen Shaku
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
You don’t need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need courage for a few seconds to overcome self-doubt before you take the next step. Shane Parrish (twitter.com)
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave. Aristotle
If you want to get an idea of a friend’s temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one’s limitations – Scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The paradox of learning is that to get better, you need to go outside your comfort zone, and thus feel worse. The people who grow continuously, thus feel consistently over their heads. Scott Young
Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; it’s choosing what’s right over what’s fun, fast, or easy; and it’s practicing your values, not just professing them. Brené Brown (Dare to Lead)
The only way to solve a problem is to go through it rather than around it. Bill Bradley
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. Simone de Beauvoir
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. Peter Thiel
Courage doesn’t mean you’re not afraid anymore, it just means your actions isn’t controlled by your doubts. Thibaut
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar Gracián
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller
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Part 3. Conclusion
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. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Table Of Contents
Part 1
Top 15 Images
Best Courage Quotes
What Is Courage?
Part 2
Courage Quotes That ARE
Famous
Short
Inspirational
Funny
Deep
Wise
Part 3
Conclusion