Top 200 Courage Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

102. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

103. “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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

104. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

— Maya Angelou

105. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

106. “The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

107. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

108. “Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you’re feeling. To have the hard conversations.”

— Brené Brown

109. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

— Helen Keller

110. “You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can’t have both.”

— Brené Brown

111. “Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”

— W. Clement Stone

112. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

— Vincent van Gogh

113. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

— John Wayne

114. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”

— Brené Brown

115. “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

116. “Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”

— Meg Cabot

117. “Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.”

— Bethany Hamilton

118. “Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”

— Harper Lee

119. “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”

— Maya Angelou

120. “You can’t get to courage without walking through vulnerability.”

— Brené Brown

121. “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”

— C. S. Lewis

122. “One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”

— Winston Churchill

123. “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

124. “Courage allows the successful woman to fail – and to learn powerful lessons from the failure – so that in the end, she didn’t fail at all.”

— Maya Angelou

125. “Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

126. “Life begins where fear ends.”

— Osho

127. “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”

— Swami Vivekananda

128. “The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.”

— Casey Neistat

129. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

— J.K. Rowling

130. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Confucius

131. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

— Paulo Coelho

132. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”

— Paulo Coelho

133. “We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

134. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

135. “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

136. “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”

— Dean Karnazes

137. “No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I’m going to make it.”

— Les Brown

138. “Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

— Dylan Thomas

139. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”

— Stephen King

140. “For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.”

— Elon Musk

141. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

142. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”

— Dale Carnegie

143. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Nelson Mandela

144. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

— Seneca

145. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

— Robert H. Schuller

146. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

— Will Smith

147. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

— Steve Jobs

148. “Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.”

— Brené Brown

149. “It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”

— Seneca

150. “I believe in myself so much that nothing is going to stop me.”

— Conor McGregor