Courage Quotes

"There is no courage without vulnerability."

- Brené Brown

"History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own."

- Michelle Obama

"Fortune favors the brave."

- Virgil

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"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

"It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do."

- John Wooden

"Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits."

- Jerry Dunn

"Pressure comes when you decide to be uncommon."

- Joel Osteen

"The difference between winners and ordinary people is winners follow through despite fear while others just dream and take no action."

- Calvin K. Lee

"If you want peace you don’t talk to your friends, you talk to your enemies."

- Desmond Tutu

"Embrace your fear as a flaw and work with these steps of changing that flaw into determination. Procrastination won’t stand a chance against you!"

- Mark Thomas

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

- Mary Shelley

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."

- Harper Lee

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live."

- Victor Hugo

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

- Ralph Ellison

"When you play the game of thrones you win or you die."

- George R. R. Martin

"Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger."

- Yann Martel

"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet."

- Stephen King

"Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared."

- Angie Thomas

"Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold."

- S. E. Hinton

"And may the odds be ever in your favor."

- Suzanne Collins

"Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for."

- Joseph Heller

"I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different."

- Veronica Roth

"The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe."

- Christopher Paolini

"You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Christopher Columbus

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If they say you can’t, prove them wrong."