Top 200 Courage Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

152. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

— A. A. Milne

153. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

154. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

— Oprah Winfrey

155. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”

— Tim Ferriss

156. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

— Oprah Winfrey

157. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

158. “Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Aristotle

160. “Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!”

— Swami Vivekananda

161. “That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

162. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

163. “Courage, dear heart.”

— C. S. Lewis

164. “At some point in life you have to face your fears.”

— Eric Thomas

165. “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

— Lance Armstrong

166. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

— Anaïs Nin

167. “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

168. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

169. “We shall never surrender.”

— Winston Churchill

170. “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

171. “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

172. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

— Jack Canfield

173. “Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.”

— Denzel Washington

174. “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

175. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

176. “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

177. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

178. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

179. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”

— Beverly Sills

180. “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

— Winston Churchill

181. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

182. “Going that one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.”

— Sylvester Stallone

183. “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

184. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare

185. “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.”

— Isaiah 54:17

186. “When life knocks you down you have two choices – stay down or get up.”

— Tom Krause

187. “If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”

— Thomas Jefferson

188. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

— Mae West

189. “Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

190. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

— Christopher Reeve

191. “The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

192. “Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.”

— Cyrus the Great

193. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

— Sheryl Sandberg

194. “Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams and hope.”

— Les Brown

195. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— E.E. Cummings

197. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

— Christian D. Larson

198. “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

199. “Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

200. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

— Vince Lombardi