Inspirational Courage Quotes

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

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

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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

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

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

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

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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

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

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

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

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

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It is not the critic who counts

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

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

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

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

Courage is not the absence of fear...

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

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

When you 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.'

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.