Courage Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

205 Courage Quotes
“He who moves not forward, goes backward”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”
Janeane Garofalo Quotes
“Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.”
Winston Churchill Quotes
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
C.S. Lewis Quotes
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
Paulo Coelho Quotes
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.”
Dr. Robert Anthony Quotes
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
Earl Wilson Quotes
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
Rollo May Quotes
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
Aristotle Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu Quotes
“"Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: inscription on the Gates of Busyrane
“I think the Romans call it Stoicism.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: Cato (act I, sc. 4)
“The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
“Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Joshua (ch. 1, v. 7)
“But straightway Jesus spake upto them saying, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XIV, v. 27)
“The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.”
Robert Blair Quotes
Source: The Grave (pt. I, l. 58)
“One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better, Sleep to wake.”
Robert Browning Quotes
Source: Epilogue--Asolando
“We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.”
Joseph Chamberlain Quotes
Source: in a speech at Southwick
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
Joseph Chamberlain Quotes
Source: in a speech at Southwick
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. III, ch. VIII), (Yonge's translation)
“Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. III, ch. VIII), (Yonge's translation)
“Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes
Source: Purgatorio (V, 14)
“Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)