Top 200 Courage Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

52. “It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

53. “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”

— Victor Hugo

54. “Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”

— William T. Sherman

55. “Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.”

— Napoleon

56. “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”

— Ronald Reagan

57. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

— Seth Godin

58. “Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”

— Dale Carnegie

59. “Fortune favours the brave.”

— Latin proverb

60. “Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.”

— J. Willard Marriott

61. “Have the courage to act instead of react.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

62. “Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.”

— Anita Roddick

63. “One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one’s capacity.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

64. “Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.”

— Robin S. Sharma

65. “Be larger than your task.”

— Orison Swett Marden

66. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”

— Earl Nightingale

67. “He who moves not forward, goes backward.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

68. “There’s plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.”

— Marilyn Vos Savant

69. “It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.”

— E. H. Harriman

70. “Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.”

— Václav Havel

71. “Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

72. “Optimism is the foundation of courage.”

— Nicholas Murray Butler

73. “Bravery is the solution to regret.”

— Robin S. Sharma

74. “If you’re willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you’ll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.”

— Kurt Warner

75. “Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

— Albert Camus

76. “You can’t catch the big fish by skimming the surface.”

— Andy Gilbert

77. “In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.”

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

78. “The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.”

— Charles M. Schwab

79. “Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.”

— Astro Teller

80. “Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”

— Brené Brown

81. “It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.”

— J. M. W. Turner

82. “I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.”

— Bear Grylls

83. “Part of courage is simple consistency.”

— Peggy Noonan

84. “It’s when you run away that you’re most liable to stumble.”

— Casey Robinson

85. “Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

— E. M. Forster

86. “Courage isn’t absence of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important.”

— Stephen R. Covey

87. “Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.”

— Oscar Wilde

88. “The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.”

— Douglas MacArthur

89. “You can’t test courage cautiously.”

— Annie Dillard

90. “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

— Thomas Carlyle

91. “The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.”

— Douglas MacArthur

92. “It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.”

— Ellis Paul Torrance

93. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

94. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”

— Tennessee Williams

95. “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

96. “It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.”

— Les Brown

97. “Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.”

— Winston Churchill

98. “A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.”

— Sydney Smith

99. “It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can’t do because we feed ourselves so much denial.”

— Zoe Saldana

100. “It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.”

— Anne Sexton