Courage Quotes

"No evil shall escape my sight in the brightest day and blackest night! Let those who worship evil beware my power-Green Lantern's light!"

- The Green Lantern

"Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I’ve lived."

- Georges St-Pierre

"It takes fear to make a person courageous. And I like that, because courage says something about you. The result is that, after a while, you get practice at being courageous. You understand how to move forward against fear, how to react in certain situations. You just get better. It doesn’t mean you stop feeling fear—that would be careless—but it means you have earned the right to feel confidence in the battle against fear."

- Georges St-Pierre

"You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time."

- Ray Lewis

"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others."

- Brené Brown

"Today, our nation saw evil -- the very worst of human nature -- and we responded with the best of America. With the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way they could."

- Then-President George W. Bush

"Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we’ve come back to remember the valor of those we lost—those who innocently went to work that day and the brave souls who went in after them. We have also come to be ever mindful of the courage of those who grieve for them, and the light that still lives in their hearts."

- New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani

"People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand."

- Elvis Presley

"The true artist is not afraid to express their innermost thoughts and emotions through their creations."

- Frida Kahlo

"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

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

- Maya Angelou

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

- Maya Angelou

"Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with acts of kindness. Continue to allow humour to lighten the burden of your tender heart."

- Maya Angelou

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

- Helen Keller

"If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander."

- Mary McLeod Bethune

"Courage does not always roar."

- Tomi Adeyemi

"It's okay to be discouraged. It's natural. But in the discouragement, find your courage."

- Tabitha Brown

"Here’s to us being afraid and doing it anyway."

- Gabrielle Union

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"History has shown that one person's willingness to stand up for what is right can be the spark that ignites far-reaching change."

- Kamala Harris

"Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Our greatest challenge isn’t speaking up against our enemies but defying those whose approval we seek the most."

- Jasmine (2019)

"Have courage and be kind. Where there is kindness, there is goodness. And when there is goodness, there is magic."

- Cinderella

"When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage."

- Walt Disney

"Let your heart be your guide on this blessed Saturday, and may you find the courage to embrace new experiences and positive energy."

"One of the greatest challenges in life is getting up with a smile and a welcoming heart on a Monday morning and the courage to face the rest of the week with gladness. Happy start of the week!"

"With the inception of January, we find the courage to change and transform."