Top 100 Courage Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”

— Elizabeth Kenny

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2. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

3. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

— Paulo Coelho

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4. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”

— William G.T. Shedd

5. “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.”

— Chris Bradford

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6. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”

— C. JoyBell C.

7. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

— Charles F. Kettering

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

9. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

— William Faulkner

10. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”

— Carrie Jones

11. “Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

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12. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.”

— Napoleon

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13. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”

— John F. Kennedy

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14. “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”

— Erica Jong

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15. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

— Mary Tyler Moore

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16. “Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”

— Robertson Davies

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17. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

— Erich Fromm

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18. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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19. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

— Venus Williams

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20. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

— Stephen R. Covey

21. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

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22. “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”

— Emma Donoghue

23. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

— Erma Bombeck

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24. “Without fear there cannot be courage.”

— Christopher Paolini

25. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

— Brian Tracy

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26. “Freedom lies in being bold.”

— Robert Frost

27. “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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28. “The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Winston Churchill

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30. “Courage is grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Muhammad Ali

32. “When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’”

— Tom Preston-Werner

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

— Lao Tzu

34. “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

35. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”

— Lao Tzu

36. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

— Mark Twain

37. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.”

— Arthur Koestler

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38. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

— Coco Chanel

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39. “If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

— David Viscott

40. “You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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41. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

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42. “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”

— Margaret Mitchell

43. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

— Anaïs Nin

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44. “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

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45. “Courage is found in unlikely places.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

46. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

— J.K. Rowling

47. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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48. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

— Arianna Huffington

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49. “The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”

— Dale Carnegie

50. “The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.”

— Thucydides

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