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Courage Quotes


"For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance."


"Conquering your fear gives you the best victory."


"Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them."



"It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs."


"A lion will only retreat if you stare it in the eyes; likewise, so will fear."


"Don't for a second worry about those who would laugh or talk about you if you were to encounter failures or make mistakes. They definitely don't belong in your life, because they can never make or break you."


"By standing alone, you prove your courage. By standing with others, you prove your love. By standing with truth, you prove your virtue. By standing with God, you prove your faith."


"One sure way to excel in life, be fabulous and fantastic is to know your fears and deal with them with fierce."


"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."


"A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!"


"Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being."


"Only cowards leave words unspoken."


"To cultivate bravery and courage, Do It Scared. Being scared is a precursor to bravery, otherwise, it wouldn't be bravery, would it? Mustering the courage to stretch beyond your familiar territory is a rewarding act in itself."


"Your greatest moments of challenge are a call to defy your timid habits of safety and rush out into life."


"He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself."


"To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again."


"To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears."


"We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power."


"A coward cries during a storm, a man of faith sings through it."


"Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear."


"Life begins at the edge of your fears."


"Feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless."


"But you can't put fight into a man's guts if hehasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcan't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in themoment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind."


"It's not about the elimination of fear. Rather it's about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step."


"The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear."


"Don't be a bully, don't be meanBe a hero, don't be afraid to be seen."


"Prayer gives you a supernatural boldness that you cannot get by any other means."


"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
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