Courage Quotes

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
John Quincy Adams

"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."
Keshavan Nair

"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."
John F. Kennedy

"Each of us is a pioneer in our own lives. We’re each charting new territory every day. The people I admire are the people who willingly go forward, no matter what the odds."
Hillary Clinton

"Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other."
Douglas MacArthur

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
Soren Kierkegaard

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave."
Mark Twain

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
Vincent Van Gogh

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
Mary Byrant

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."
E.F. Schumacker

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Niebuhr

"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act."
Maxwell Maltz

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
Erma Bombeck

"Courage is grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway

"A simple life depends on mustering the courage to reckon with who we are and what it will take to move us in a direction we want to go."
Deborah Deford, from The Simpler Life

"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity."
Barbara De Angelis

"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."
Richard Bach

"The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior."
D.A. Battista

"What a new face courage puts on everything!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
Andre Gide

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
Seneca

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."
Dale Carnegie

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. . . . There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
Alan Cohen

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin

"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die."
Les Brown

"Courage is realizing you're afraid and still acting."
Former Mayor Rudi Guiliani

"It takes vision and courage to create-it takes faith and courage to prove."
Owen D. Young