83+ Courage Quotes to Inspire and Enlighten You

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined…
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.
Courage is saying, Maybe what I’m doing isn’t working maybe I should try something else.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.

A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
One man with courage is a majority.
A bold attempt is half success.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish then with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Courage is being scared to death – but saddling up anyway.

Courage is a kind of salvation.
Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only hade wonderful things happen to you.
It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to stick to it.
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, will never make you feel inferior.
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
All of our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
Courage conquers all things.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by 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."
Always do what you are afraid to do.
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world — it is the courage to be who you are.
Do not fear to step into the unknown for where there is risk, there is also reward.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in sad hours.
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.
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
Another word for creativity is courage.
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
