Courage Quotes

"Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyways."

- Emory Austin

"Maybe life isn't about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it's about collecting the scars to prove that we showed up for it."

- Hannah Brencher

"since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid"

- E.E. Cummings

"Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it."

- Maya Angelou

"Change can be scary, but you know what's scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing."

- Mandy Hale

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"You must have the courage to trust your instincts and be ready to question what other people don't. If you do that, you can seize opportunities that others would miss. Believe in yourself, and use everything you can — including the obstacles — to propel you along the road to success. Who knows what you might achieve?"

- Richard Branson

"Next time, ask 'What's the worst that will happen?' Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

"Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong."

- Suzy Kassem

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world … would do this, it would change the earth."

- William Faulkner

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Sydney Smith

"Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood."

- Charles Swindoll

"To see what is right and not do it, is the want of courage."

- Confucius

"A champion is someone who gets up when they can't"

- Jack Dempsey

"Anyone who supports a team that is winning –it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage."

- Bart Starr

"Go back? he thought. No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness."

- Brené Brown

"How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"

- Robert Frost

"For love of country they accepted death."

- James A. Garfield

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever."

- Neil Gaiman

"We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

- Barbara de Angelis

"Courage is being scared to death –but saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

- Mark Twain

"He that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose."

- Anne Brontë

"But he that dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose."

- Anne Bronte

"Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle."

- Sanya Richards-Ross

"You've got the guts to find your own purpose."

- Madeleine Albright

"Have the courage to build your life around what is really most important to you."

- Joshua Becker

"The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

- Jim Hightower