Courage Quotes

"For how can a man die better than facing fearful odds defending the ashes of his father and the temple of the gods?"

- TB MacCauley

"In great and dangerous operations one must not think but act."

- Julius Caesar

"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."

- George F. Kennan

"I have had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards."

- Alberto Salazar

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful."

- Earnest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition Advertisement

"How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death."

- Napoleon

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"If you’re going through hell, keep going!"

- Winston Churchill

"A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up."

- Rickson Gracie

"I don’t initiate violence. I retaliate."

- Chuck Norris

"There’s only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person."

- Ronda Rousey

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid."

- Col. David Hackworth

"Sometimes you don’t have to win. You cannot win. But that has nothing to do with losing."

- Rickson Gracie

"Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you."

- Ueshiba

"Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends."

- Alexander L. Fraser

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain

"I’d love to stand here and talk with you...but I’m not going to."

- Phil Connors

"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality."

- James C. Collins

"When life brings big winds of change that almost blow you over, close your eyes, hang on tight, and believe."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it."

- Merida

"If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you."

- Billy Wilder

"The bigger they are the harder they fall. The smaller they are the further they fly!"

"Don't block with your face."

"I shall give you a brief taste of death, so that you may recognize it when it comes again."

"Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you."

"Fear is the true opiate of combat."

"If you want to see the rainbow, be ready to face the rain first."

"Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak … sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go."

"Karate is not for the faint-hearted. It's about pushing yourself to the limit and beyond."