Courage Quotes

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

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

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

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

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

"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."

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

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

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

"Courage is grace under pressure."

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

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

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends."

"To see the right and not to do it is cowardice."

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."

"We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community."

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."

"Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love."

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."