33 Quotes About Courage

It takes a lot of confidence to have courage and tackle the difficulties of life. These quotes about courage account for a handful of qualities that are needed to rise to any occasion.

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.”

“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.”

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”

“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

“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.”

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

“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.”

“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“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.”

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

Having the ability to stand up for yourself and others is one way to ignite a movement towards the betterment of society.