When someone decides to be brave, they are ready to confront adverse situations. Acting courageously means you are even willing to confront your worst fears. However, confronting danger, uncertainty and fears is not always easy. There is always a danger allowing the situation to get the better of you.
Read the 100 best courage quotes that will motivate you to find the strength to face your fears.
1. “Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.” -Baltasar Gracian
2. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin
3. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” -Bertrand Russell
4. “The best way out is always through.” -Robert Frost
5. “Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” -Joshua
6. “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” -R. G. Ingersoll
7. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” -Soren Kierkegaard
8. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill
9. “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections.” -Thomas Paine
10. “There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” -Seneca
11. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” -Eddie Rickenbacker
12. “Fight hard when you are down; die hard—determine at least to do—and you won’t die at all.” -James H. West
13. “What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.” -Donald Trump
14. “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” -Babe Ruth
15. “No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.” -Admiral Horatio Nelson
16. “Trust the still, small voice that says, “this might work and I’ll try it.” -Diane Mariechild
17. “Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.” -Karl von Clausewitz
18. “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
19. “To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.” -Henri Matisse
20. “Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne
21. “We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.” -Paul Valéry
22. “In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.” -Gerald R. Ford
23. “To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” -Picabo Street
24. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” -Marie Curie
25. “We need a backbone, not a wishbone.” -Joyce Meyer
26. “Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.” -Madeleine L’Engle
27. “I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don’t be afraid — if you are afraid, you can’t move forward.” -Malala Yousafzai
28. “What we know matters but who we are matters more.” -Brené Brown
29. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” -Aristotle
30. “I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” -Catherine the Great
31. “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” -Confucius
32. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” -Maya Angelou
33. “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
34. “Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.” -Unknown
35. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” -E.E. Cummings
36. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” -William Faulkner
37. “Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” -Erica Jong
38. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” -J.R.R. Tolkien
39. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” -Helen Keller
40. “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” -Margaret Mitchell
41. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” -Muhammad Ali
42. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” -Winston Churchill
43. “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” -Franklin P. Jones
44. “You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” -Brené Brown
45. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
46. “Courage is grace under pressure.” -Ernest Hemingway
47. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” -Steve Jobs
48. “Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.” -P. T. Barnum
49. “Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” -Roy T. Bennett
50. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” -Lao Tzu
51. “The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.” -Daniel J Boorstin
52. “It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” -Horace
53. “Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” -Ovid
54. “Without fear, there cannot be courage.” -Christopher Paolini
55. “Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.” -Timothy Dalton
56. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
57. “The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.” -Charles Bukowski
58. “Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” -Pope John Paul II
59. “There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.” -Susan Cain
60. “We ought to face our destiny with courage.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
61. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.” -Reginald Rose
62. “Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” -Brene Brown
63. “Courage will now be your best defense against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.” -J.R.R. Tolkien
64. “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” -André Gide
65. “Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.” -Ruth Gordon
66. “He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” -Jean-Luc Godard
67. “Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.” -Amit Ray
68. “It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.” -Xiaolu Guo
69. “Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.” -Stephen King
70. “It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.” -Renee Ahdieh
71. “Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you’ll most likely fail even before everything else starts.” -Veronica Mist
72. “Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.” -Robert Fanney
73. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” -Brené Brown
74. “Courage is a learned quality, an acquirable set of skills, a practiced competence.” -Gus Lee
75. “Do you have the courage to act outwardly on what you see inwardly?” -T.D. Jakes
76. “Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.” -Scott Turow
77. “The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” -Jim Hightower
78. “We must have the courage to let go of the past if we are going to grasp the future.” -David DeNotaris
79. “Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be.” -David Goggins
80. “Genius is talent set on fire by courage.” -Henry Van Dyke
81. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent van Gogh
82. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” -J.K. Rowling
83. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston S. Churchill
84. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” -Coco Chanel
85. “Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” -George R.R. Martin
86. “Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.” -Roy T. Bennett
87. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” -Roy T. Bennett
88. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” -Jane Austen
89. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.” -C. JoyBell C.
90. “Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.” -Amit Ray
91. “The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” -Jim Hightower
92. “With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” -Mark Twain
93. “My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.” -Jenna Jameson
94. “Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.” -Timothy Dalton
95. “Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.” -Zig Ziglar
96. “Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.” -Ruth Gordon
97. “Courage originally meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” -Brené Brown
98. “Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.” -Robert Fanney
99. “Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.” -Thucydides
100. “All happiness depends on courage and work.” -Honoré de Balzac