Quotes on Courage
“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Neil Gaiman, Courage
“I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.”
Hulk Hogan, Courage
“All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...”
Lady Gaga, Courage
“Glory crowns the deeds of those who expose themselves to toils and dangers.”
Alexander the Great, Success, Courage
“Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.”
Alexander the Great, Success, Courage
“Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”
Alexander the Great, Courage
“Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.”
Alexander the Great, Anger and Fighting, Courage
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
― Richard Branson, The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
Richard Branson, Courage
“It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Courage, Goals
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.”
Amelia Earhart, Courage
“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not, knows no release,
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.”
Amelia Earhart, Courage
“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Goals, Courage
“I feel fear quite strongly. It’s not as though I just have the absence of fear. I feel it quite strongly. But there are times when something is important enough, you believe in it enough, that you do it in spite of the fear. People shouldn’t think, ‘I feel fear about this, and therefore I shouldn’t do it.’ It’s normal to feel fear. There’d have to be something mentally wrong [with you] if you didn’t feel fear. […] If you just accept the probabilities, then that diminishes fear.”
Elon Musk, Courage
“When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, okay, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength — 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it’s really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn’t afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
Elon Musk, Courage, Science
"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts."
John Wooden, Success, Courage
“The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life, Nature, Intelligence/Wisdom, Courage, Truth, Goals
“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.”
Erma Bombeck, Goals, Courage
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
Erma Bombeck, Goals, Courage
“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”
Erma Bombeck, Life, Courage
“Will it be your heart that wins, or your fear?”
Mel Robbins, Courage
“It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”
Mel Robbins, Courage
“She was pushed forward by something way more powerful: herself. That’s what courage is. It’s a push.”
Mel Robbins, Courage, Power
“As scared as you are to disappoint someone that you love, it’s always worth it to be honest about what you need.”
Mel Robbins, Courage, Love
"All it takes is one moment of courage, one step forward, to change your life."
Mel Robbins, Courage, Life
“If you have the courage to start, you have the courage to succeed.”
Mel Robbins, Courage, Success
“That’s how confidence grows—one small, courageous move at a time.”
Mel Robbins, Courage
“What I’ve learned the hard way is that having the courage to pursue your dreams is way more important than actually achieving them.”
Mel Robbins, Goals, Courage
"If all you ever do is think about what you want, it’s not a dream—it’s a wish. A dream requires action. It demands partnership. It only becomes real when you find the courage to step toward it.”
Mel Robbins, Goals, Courage
"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"
Thomas Edison, Courage, Goals, Society
“A man who hides himself, confesses as evidently the superiority of his enemy, as another who fairly delivers his arms.”
― ‘A Treatise Of Human Nature’.
David Hume, Courage
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”
Stephen Covey, Courage
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, non apologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
Stephen Covey, Life, Courage
“I have no fear, I have only love.”
Stevie Nicks, Courage, Love
“Time makes you bolder, children get older. I’m getting older, too.”
Stevie Nicks, Time, Courage, Life
“I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.”
Stevie Nicks, Courage
“If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?”
Stevie Nicks, Courage
“Truth, virtue, and courage are not necessarily enough, but they are our best bet.”
Jordan Peterson, Truth, Kindness, Courage
“Tell yourself the truth! That you’ve wasted enough time, and that you have other dreams that will take courage to realize…”
David Goggins, Truth, Time, Goals, Courage
“I was fearless...and lawless.”
Katharine Hepburn, Courage
“Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.”
Katharine Hepburn, Courage
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
Florence Nightingale, Courage
“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”
Anne Frank, Goals, Belief, Love, Happiness, Strength, Courage
“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
Anne Frank, Hope, Life, Courage, Strength
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
Anne Frank, Courage
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
Helen Keller, Life, Courage, Happiness
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
Helen Keller, Courage
"Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Courage, Intelligence/Wisdom
"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."
Warren Buffet, Finance, Courage
"On the cause of silence, each of us draws the face of their own fear—fear of contempt, of censure, or some judgement, or recognition, of challenge, of annihilation. But most of all, I think, we fear the visibility without which we cannot truly live."
Audre Lorde, Courage, Life
"What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?"
Audre Lorde, Courage
"We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired."
Audre Lorde, Courage
"Your silence will not protect you."
Audre Lorde, Courage
"My daughter, when I told her of our topic and my difficulty with it, said, ‘Tell them about how you’re never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there’s always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don’t speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.’"
Audre Lorde, Courage
"To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts."
Taylor Swift, Courage Love, Freedom
"But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS."
Taylor Swift, Courage Love, Music
"FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again... even though every time you've tried before you've lost."
Taylor Swift, Courage
"Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway..."
Taylor Swift, Courage
"To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost. It’s FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them. I think it’s FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s FEARLESS to stop believing them. It’s FEARLESS to say “you’re NOT sorry”, and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright…That’sFEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That’s why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS."
Taylor Swift, Courage, Love
"Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."
Maria Montessori, Intelligence/Wisdom, Courage, Strength
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."
Thomas Paine, Strength, Courage
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steve Jobs, Courage, Goals
"Courage is being scared to death and standing up anyway."
John Wayne, Courage
"Fear is just one of the many words I don't know the meaning of."
John Wayne, Courage
"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."
John Wayne, Courage
"It takes courage to admit that we participate in killing, violence, and hate around the world. And once you face the truth, it is difficult to retreat back into a state of unconsciousness. Becoming aware of the truth requires action, and that is when the struggle begins."
John Lewis, Courage, Truth
"When you see something that is not the way it should be, don’t be afraid. Speak up, speak out, be courageous."
John Lewis, Courage
"F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours."
Zig Ziglar, Courage
"Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams and hope."
Les Brown, Courage, Goals
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
Les Brown, Courage, Goals
"The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream."
Les Brown, Courage, Goals
"Speak you mind even if your voice shakes."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Courage
"Courage is exhilarating."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Courage
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Courage, Life
"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ..."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Courage
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Courage, Life
"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Courage, Love, Life, Death
"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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Strength, Courage, Goals
"You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering."
Ernest Hemingway, Courage
"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me."
Ernest Hemingway, Courage
"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ernest Hemingway, Courage, Life
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway, Courage
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
Nelson Mandela, Courage
"The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears."
Nelson Mandela, Courage
"Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it."
Nelson Mandela, Courage
"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."
Seneca, Problems, Courage
"He who is brave is free."
Seneca, Courage, Freedom
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
Seneca, Life, Courage
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
Plato, Courage
"First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Courage
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Courage
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Courage
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Goals, Courage, Life
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
Ronald Reagan, Freedom, Courage
"Don't be afraid to see what you see."
Ronald Reagan, Courage
"The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave."
Ronald Reagan, Courage
"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer."
Ronald Reagan, Courage
"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don&pos;t have the strength."
Teddy Roosevelt, Courage, Strength
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."
Aristotle, Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."
Mark Twain, Courage
"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."
Winnie the Pooh, Courage, Intelligence/Wisdom
"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
Van Gogh, Work, Courage
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
Van Gogh, Courage
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
Martin Luther King Jr., Courage
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King Jr., Courage
"On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."
Martin Luther King Jr., Courage
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr., Courage
"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."
Gandhi, Courage
"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."
Marcus Aurelius, Courage
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill, Success, Courage
"It is easy to be brave at a safe distance."
Aesop, Courage
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney, Goals, Courage
"Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Courage, Love, Hope
"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Courage
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity."
Earl Nightingale, Courage
"All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward."
Dale Carnegie , Courage
"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
Benjamin Franklin, Courage
"Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain."
Sun Tzu, Courage, Anger and Fighting
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
Confucius, Intelligence/Wisdom, Kindness, Courage
"To see the right and not to do it is cowardice."
Confucius, Courage
"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."
Lao Tzu, Courage
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."