411 Quotes About Courage to Inspire You to New Heights

Welcome to our collection of quotes and shareable quote pictures on courage. Call it courage or bravery or valor or overcoming fear or simply FULLY living - it represents something very important to being human - to truly living our lives. We hope you ponder these quotes and that they inspire and please you. If they do, please share widely, that others might be inspired too.

--Robert Frost

--Albert Camus

--Alexis de Tocqueville

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--Alfred North Whitehead

--Amelia Earhart

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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.

--Anaïs Nin

--Andre Gide

--Aristotle

--Arthur Ashe

--C. S. Lewis

--Carl von Clausewitz

--Catherine the Great

--Charles F. Kettering

--Chuck Swindoll

--Clare Boothe Luce

--Confucius

--Erich Fromm

--François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

--Hermann Hesse

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

--Horace

--J. K. Rowling

--J. R. R. Tolkien

--John Quincy Adams

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

--Jonas Salk

--Les Brown

--Marcus Garvey

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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

--Marian Wright Edelman

--Maya Angelou

--Michel de Montaigne

--Miguel de Cervantes

--Muhammad Ali

--Margaret Mitchell

--Nora Ephron

--Ovid

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

--Reinhold Niebuhr

--Ronald Reagan

--Saint Teresa of Avila

--Sallust

--T. S. Eliot

--Thucydides

--Zig Ziglar

--Walt Disney

--Rabindranath Tagore

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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

--Criss Jami

--Martin Luther King Jr.

--Erica Jong

--Carl Jung

--Paulo Coelho

--Maya Angelou

--Seneca the Younger

--Brené Brown

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What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

--Erica Jong

--Tim Ferriss

--Fred Rogers

--Jordan Peterson

--Osho

--Friedrich Nietzsche

--Nelson Mandela

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

--John Wayne

--Nassim Nicholas Taleb

--Simone de Beauvoir

--Helen Keller

--Eleanor Roosevelt

--Woody Allen

--Ruth Gordon

--Robert Fanney

--Harry Hoover

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

--Socrates

--Aristotle

--Confucius

--Joyce Meyer

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

--Kanye West

--Mas Oyama

--Carl Hart

--Azra Gregor

--John Assaraf

--Wes Fesler

--Graeme Rodaughan

--Ed Weeks

--Roger Crawford

--Kristin Michelle Elizabeth

--Robert M. Hensel

--Jan Smuts

--Dana Loesch

--Adam Lindsay Gordon

--Harley King

--Robert J. Braathe

--Katie Alender

--Harriet Lerner

--Cindy Ann Peterson

--Meena Harris

--Brittany Burgunder

--The Stoic Emperor

--Gabby Bernstein

--Rehan Khan

--Leon Brown

--Ken Poirot

--Vittorio Alfieri

--Wilfred Grenfell

--William Howard Taft

--Tommy Douglas

--Tim O'Brien

--Terence

--Steven Erikson

--Seneca

--Richard L. Evans

--Ralph W. Sockman

--Rita Levi-Montalcini

--Phil McGraw

--Meg Cabot

--Katherine Anne Porter

--Jerome Cady

--Ian Mcewan

--Gabriele D'Annunzio

--Grace Paley

--David Whyte

--Bear Grylls

--Kiera Cass

--Wim Wenders

--William Faulkner

--William Congreve

--Wallace Stevens

--Tom Althouse

--Thucydides

--Thomas Szasz

--Suze Orman

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In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.