Courage Quotes

"Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

"What chance do we have? The question is “what choice.” Run, hide, plead for mercy, scatter your forces. You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power, and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission. The time to fight is now!"

- Jyn Erso

"If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughtta go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid."

- Q

"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives."

- Mahnaz Afkhami

"Timidity does not inspire bold acts."

- Mae Jemison

"If you don’t try at anything you can’t fail… it takes backbone to lead the life you want."

- Richard Yates

"I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your dreams"

- Oprah Winfrey

"All our dreams will come true if we have the courage to pursue them"

- Walt Disney

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on. It is going on when you don't have strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability."

- Brené Brown

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."

- Helen Keller

"We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook."

- Haile Selassie

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. But it is courage that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something in your life."

- Eminem

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Having the courage to reckon with our emotions and to rumble with our stories is the path to writing our brave new ending."

- Brené Brown

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise."

- Sylvia Plath

"Knowing what you need to do to improve your life takes wisdom. Pushing yourself to do it takes courage"

- Mel Robbins

"A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for"

- Albert Einstein

"Being the people’s advocate at times means that you have to be the voice of reason. This means that sometimes you will have to take the unpopular stance, and be the one that asks, “what are the implications if we do or don’t do this?”. HR is about treating people fair so they respect you, not about trying to be “liked”."

- Dr. Dieter Veldsman

"Never say no when you really want to say yes."

- Jenny Han

"Follow your heart and intuition with courage. They somehow know what you aspire to be."

- Steve Jobs

"Courage does not always yell. At times, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.'"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"I discovered that courage was the triumph over fear, not the absence of it."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Accept the challenge so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory"

"We march, not to run from life, but to meet it head-on"