Courage Quotes

"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Don’t give into your fears, if you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart."

- Paulo Coelho

"It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."

- Seneca

"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

- Marianne Williamson

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for."

- G.T. Shedd

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"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

"Courage does not always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid at the exact same time."

- Brené Brown

"God's love calls us to move beyond fear. We ask God for the courage to abandon ourselves unreservedly, so that we might be molded by God's grace, even as we cannot see where that path may lead us."

- St. Ignatius Loyola

"The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course in the United States... In that same spirit, we must have the courage - and teach our students the courage - to be bearers to the world of this transforming love, co-creators of a more deeply human world, collaborators with Christ in the building of God's Kingdom."

- Peter Hans Kolvenbach

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God."

- Isaiah 41:10

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

- Muhammad Ali

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong."

- 1 Corinthians 16:13

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin

"But even if you should suffer because of righteousness, blessed are you. Do not be afraid or terrified with fear of them, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts."

- 1 Peter 3:14-15

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Lao Tzu

"Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid."

- Matthew 14:27

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

- Babe Ruth

"Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity."

"FEAR has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run. Face Everything And Rise."

"Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing."