Courage Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

205 Courage Quotes
“Fortune helps the brave.”
Publius Terentius Afer Quotes
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
“The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”
Robert Cushing Quotes
“In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
Anonymous Quotes
“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Winston Churchill Quotes
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Muhammad Ali Quotes
“No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.”
Joseph Bryant (Thayendanegea of the Mohawk Tribe) Quotes
“You can't test courage cautiously.”
Anne Dillard Quotes
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Edward Estlin Cummings Quotes
“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
Aesop Quotes
“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”
Ralph W. Sockman Quotes
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”
Winston Churchill Quotes
“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.”
John Petit-Senn Quotes
“The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.”
Joanna Baillie Quotes
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
Ernest Hemingway Quotes
“Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
“Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.”
Oliver J. Hart Quotes
“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
“Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes