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Quotes About Courage

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
~ Mark Twain
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
~ Seneca the Younger
Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.
~ Caroline Myss
Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.
~ Debbie Ford
I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
~ Eudora Welty
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
~ Guy de Maupassant
When things go wrong, don't go with them.
~ Elvis Presley
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
~ Arianna Huffington
Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.
~ Bernie Glassman
If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.
~ Winston Churchill
I don't always know where this life is going. i can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.
~ Katie Davis
I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!
~ Kylie Minogue
Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!
~ Laird Hamilton
Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I had to find the courage to turn my life around.
~ Nikki Sixx
I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
~ Bear Grylls
Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?
~ David Niven
The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it's about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.
~ Ed Stetzer
A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.
~ Epictetus
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
~ Stendhal
Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
~ Lars von Trier
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
~ Muriel Rukeyser