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Quotes About Courage

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.
~ Marie Colvin
I hereby arm myself for today with coffee and the willingness to be wrong.
~ Audrey Assad
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
~ William Howard Taft
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
~ Walt Disney Company
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
~ Abraham H. Maslow
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
~ Catherine the Great
Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
~ Ally Carter
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
~ John Diamond
What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
~ Audrey Flack
Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.
~ Denholm Elliott
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
~ George Lois
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
~ Arthur Ashe
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
~ Bernard Malamud
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
~ William Shakespeare
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes
~ Fritz Kunkel
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
~ Irving Wallace
Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.
~ Shalane Flanagan
We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.
~ James Ellis
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
~ Jack Canfield
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
~ Patrick Henry