Courage is not always being brave and the absence of fear. Courage is compassion, courage is hope and courage is kindness.
Courage comes from within but sometimes a word of encouragement really helps us be courageous and take action at the right time.
Here I am sharing some of the best quotes on courage which helped me take life’s decision when I was timid and fearful.
I hope these quotes are going to serve you the same way they did to me.
Courage quotes to give you strength
1.“Courage conquers all things, it even gives strength to the body.” – Lilian Watson
2. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” – Lilian Watson
3. “Nothing is impossible to the person who backs Desire with Faith.” – Robin Sharma
4. “Fortune favours the brave” – Anonymous
5. “The best hearts are ever the bravest.” – Anonymous
6.“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
7. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
8. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
9. “Success is not fatal, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count.” – Winston Churchill
10. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin
11. “Courage is what it takes to stand and speak: courage is also what it takes to sit and listen.” – Winston Churchill
12. “Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.” Jean-Paul
13. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” -Mark Twain
14. “Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.” -Eddie Rickenbacker
15. “ courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” -John Quincy Adams
Quotes on courage to inspire action
16. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” -Muhammad Ali
17. “Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.” -Zig Zigler
18. “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
19. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
20. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” -Henry Ford
21. “It’s a courageous act to just be with whatever is happening at the moment- all of it, the difficult as well as the wonderful.” -Ellen Fisher
22. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” -Plato
23. “Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.” -Amit Ray
Courage quotes to motivate you
24. “My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.” -Jenna Jameson
25. “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
25. “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
27. “The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.” -Thucydides
28. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -William Faulkner
29. “You will never do anything without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour.” -Aristotle
30. “To have the courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that.” -Saint Teresa Of Avila
Best Courage quotes
31. “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” —Charlie Chaplin
32. “He who is brave is free.”― Seneca
33. “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”- R. G. Ingersoll
34. “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
35. “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
36. “You must always remember this: Have courage and be kind. You have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body. And it has power. More than you know.” -Brittany Candau
37. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
Courage quotes to face fear
38. “Courage is being scared to death … and saddling up anyway.” —John Wayne
39. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” —William Faulkner
40. “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
41. “Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse
42. “Without fear, there cannot be courage.” ― Christopher Paolini
43. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.” —Arthur Koestler
44. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” —Erma Bombeck
45. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.- Winston Churchill'”
Courage Quotes to live life well
46. “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill.
47. “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.
48. “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
49. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”— Lao Tzu
50. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
51. “You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” ―Brené Brown
52. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
53. “There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.”― Susan Cain
54. “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
55. “Courage is a learned quality, an acquirable set of skills, a practised competence.” – Gus Lee
Courage quotes to go after our dreams
56. “Genius is talent set on fire by courage.” – Henry Van Dyke
57. “Do you have the courage to act outwardly on what you see inwardly?” – T.D. Jakes
58. “We must have the courage to let go of the past if we are going to grasp the future.” – David DeNotaris
59. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
60. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.” – C. JoyBell C.
61. “I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.” – Oprah Winfrey
62. “Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” ― Erica Jong
63. “The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” –Thucydides
64. “Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.”- Jean-Paul
65. “A man without courage is a knife without an edge.”- Proverb
Courage quotes to inspire hope
66. “The man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his courage.”- François de La Rochefoucauld
67. “Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.”- Eddie Rickenbacker
68. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”- Benjamin Franklin
69. “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
70. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”- Earl Nightingale
71. “A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.”- Les Brown
72. “It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”- Napoleon Bonaparte:
73. “Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause”- Plutarch
74. “There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”-Ronald Reagan
75. “Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.”- Timothy Dalton
More Courage Quotes
76. “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.”- Victor Hugo
77. “The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life, even in order to keep it.”- Gilbert K Chesterton
78. “My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.”- Jenna Jameson
79. “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”- Jonas Salk
80. “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”― Emma Donoghue
81. “Courage is found in unlikely places.”― J.R.R. Tolkien
82. “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”― Roy T. Bennett
83. “Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”- Baltasar Gracian
84. “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
85. “We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” ― Barbara De Angelis
Courage Quotes from Books
86. “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, Harry Potter
87. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s 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 Mocking bird
88. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
89. “Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
90. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”― C. JoyBell C.
91. “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, Pride and Prejudice
92. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”― Maya Angelou
93. “A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.”― John A. Shedd
94. “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
95. “The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
Courage quotes to conquer fear
96. “When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit.”
– John Greenleaf Whittier
97. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
98. “The best way out is always through.”- Robert Frost
99. “Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” – Unknown
100. “If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?”- Les Brown
101. “Trust the still, small voice that says, “This might work and I’ll try it.”- Diane Mariechild
102. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”- Marie Curie
103. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”- Steve Jobs
104. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”- Dale Carnegie
105. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”- Albert Ellis
106. “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca
107. “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
108. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”- Theodore Roosevelt
109. “Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.”- Erica Jong
110. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”- Vincent Van Gogh
So these were the best quotes on courage you can find.
I hope you loved them and take them to heart.
If we practice and imbibe even one quote in our life, we will be able to live the life we have always dreamed of.
Nothing is impossible till you’re alive.
Believe in yourself and have courage and be kind.
