Courage is the quality of being confident, not easily afraid, or intimidated. To be courageous is to overcome fear and live to your greatest despite the fear. On the journey to success, we need to make bold decisions and take fearful paths and we need the courage to achieve that. Here are some quotes that will inspire you to be courageous.
Inspiring Courage Quotes
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”- Baltasar Gracian
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”- Anais Nin
“The best way out is always through.”- Robert Frost
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“It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit.”- Anonymous

“Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” – Joshua 1:7-8
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”- R. G. Ingersoll
“Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”- Anonymous
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” – Catherine the Great
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”- Anonymous
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” – Tacitus, Roman historian
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections.” – Thomas Paine
“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” – Seneca
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
– Eddie Rickenbacke
“Fight hard when you are down; die hard—determine at least to do—and you won’t die at all.” – James H. West
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.” ― Madeleine L’Engle
“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.” – Donald Trump

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – Babe Ruth
“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.” – Admiral Horatio Nelson
“Trust the still, small voice that says, “this might work and I’ll try it.” – Diane Mariechild
“Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.”
– Karl von Clausewitz
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not the absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” – Mark Twain
“Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

“We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.” – Paul Valéry
“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
“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
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”
– Confucius
“I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“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
“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

“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.” ― Joyce Meyer
“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
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
― Brené Brown
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” ― Aristotle
