Courage Quotes

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death or hardship

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take

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

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will

When we dare to be powerful, to use our strength in the service of our vision, then it becomes less and less important whether we are afraid

Freedom lies in being bold

I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match

There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering

It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch

There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me.'

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what

Often it is just in unmasking at last that we find strength for the maskless days before us

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go

You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men

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

You gain a strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow

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

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.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality

Be firm as a rock where the waves beat incessantly against it. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls around it—still it stands firm

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows

What can be explained is not poetry

Have no fear of perfection – you'll never reach it.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

Leap, and the net will appear

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

What would you do if you weren't afraid

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits

There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself

The paradox of courage is that one must be a little careless of life in order to keep it

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

He who is brave is never imprudent

To dare is to do; to fear is to fail

What necessity is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point

Become who you are by learning who you are

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use

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

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance

We ought to face our destiny with courage

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts. Courage is a habit.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him

I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

You must do what you cannot do

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength

Fear is a poor chisel with which to carve out tomorrow

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

You must do life with the full amount of yourself, or do it not at all

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if there's a mountain, you climb it, and if there's a river, you ford it. You don't sit down and cry. You don't die. You do the next thing.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship

The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort. You cannot have both

He who is brave is free

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. The courageous man is the one who is afraid, yet goes forward anyway

I am not afraid... I was born to do this

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality

There is always danger for those who are afraid

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving

He who is brave is free

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will

The knight who is never afraid, never brave

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart

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

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the only essential thing

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it

To live without hope is to cease to live

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears

Become who you are

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Courage, dear heart

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

For the artist, there is no such thing as fear. Only failure to get into the unknown.

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage

Courage is grace under pressure