- Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
Zig Ziglar
- Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion
- Always be courageous and strong, and don’t fear. – Best Courage Quotes
Gabby Douglas
Always be courageous and strong, and don’t fear.
Gabby Douglas
- Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
- Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar N. Bradley
- Life is to be entered upon with courage. – Best Courage Quotes
Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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
- Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
- I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
Louis Nizer
- I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
Christian Bale
- If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. – Best Courage Quotes
David Viscott
- The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Carl Lewis
- Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus
- Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. – Best Courage Quotes
Dan Rather

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
- I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
- 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
- Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. – Best Courage Quotes
Leo Rosten
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul
- I’m grateful to God for His bountiful gifts… He gave me courage and faith in myself.
Loretta Young
- From caring comes courage. – Best Courage Quotes
Lao Tzu
- It requires more courage to suffer than to die. – Best Courage Quotes
Napoleon Bonaparte
- You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you’ll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
Francis Ford Coppola
- Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare
- Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz
- If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
John Irving
- 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
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. – Best Courage Quotes
Samuel Johnson
- The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
- Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
- A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes About Courage 101 – 200
- Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Saint Francis de Sales
- People say to me all the time, ‘You have no fear.’ I tell them, ‘No, that’s not true. I’m scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.’
Ronda Rousey
- Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there’s really nothing to lose. There’s no wrong you can’t make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There’s no bounds.
Jewel
- Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? – Best Courage Quotes
Virgil
- You can’t test courage cautiously.
Annie Dillard
- I think my mother… made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
Caroline Kennedy
- Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. – Best Courage Quotes
Clare Boothe Luce
- God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr
- Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May
- I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
Paloma Faith
- Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela
- Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov
- Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
David Seabury
- Courage is a kind of salvation. – Best Courage Quotes
Plato
- Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius
- Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
- The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
Kailash Satyarthi
- Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
- It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – Best Courage Quotes
e. e. cummings
- A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
James E. Faust