Courage Quotes and Sayings

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

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

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus

Fortune favours the brave.
Terence

Fear and courage are brothers.
Proverb

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King, jr.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George Sheehan

True courage is a result of reasoning.
Jeremy Collier

And though hard be the task,
‘Keep a stiff upper lip.’
Phoebe Cary

Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
Anonymous

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Dan Rather

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men, but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
Edna Ferber

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Charles Kennedy

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
John F. Kennedy

A man of courage never wants weapons.
Anonymous

One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson

Inside courage laughs fear.
Jareb Teague

You can’t test courage cautiously.
Anne Dillard

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
Robert Coles

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy