Courage Quotes

Here is a collection of courage quotes:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition”.
– Steve Jobs

“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”.
– Nelson Mandela

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”.
– Muhammad Ali

“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”.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen”.
– Winston Churchill

“Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence”.
– Pope John Paul II

“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”.
– Dale Carnegie

“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”.
– Haile Selassie

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity”.
– W. Clement Stone

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

“Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow”.
– Dan Rather

“Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life”.
– Don Miguel Ruiz

“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”.
– Maya Angelou

“Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free”.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“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 the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others”.
– Samuel Johnson

“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason”.
– Alfred North Whitehead

“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence”.
– Thomas Szasz

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage”.
– Maya Angelou

“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

“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage”.
– Thucydides