Courage Quotes

"To have courage for whatever comes in life, everything lies in that."

- St. Teresa of Avila

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."

- Sydney Smith

"Let nothing frighten you. Who has God, lacks nothing. God alone is enough."

- St. Teresa of Avila

"What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Do not let evil defeat you; instead conquer evil with good."

- Romans 12:21

"Do not lose your courage because it brings with it a great reward."

- Hebrews 10:35

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

- Epicurus

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Pray without ceasing."

- Thessalonians 5:17

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You must always remember this: Have courage and be kind. You have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body. And it has power. More than you know."

- Brittany Candau

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen."

- Brené Brown

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."

- Maya Angelou

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"The secret to happiness is freedom … and the secret to freedom is courage."

- Thucydides

"Courage is being scared to death … and saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

- Winston Churchill

"Courage results when one’s convictions are bigger than one’s fears."

- Orrin Woodward

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Earl Nightingale

"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

- Dale Carnegie

"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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Anaïs Nin

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."