“Optimism is true moral courage.”
Ernest Shackleton
OptimismMoral Courage
Courage Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COURAGE
Courage Quotes
Read 200 of the best courage quotes about facing fear, moral courage and bravery from Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Mark Twain, C.S. Lewis, Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh and more.
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
Edmund Hillary
Self MasteryAdventure
“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.”
Sally Ride
AdventureFear
“Courage is self-affirmation "in spite of."
Paul Tillich
Self AffirmationPhilosophy
“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
Rollo May
DespairPerseverance
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”Albert Camus
Inner StrengthHope
“Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he indeed is the noblest victor who conquers himself.”Buddha
Self MasteryVictory
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”Swami Vivekananda
GoalsPerseverance
“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud.”
Bhagat Singh
Speaking UpFreedom
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”Rabindranath Tagore
ActionRisk
“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep.”A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
DreamsDetermination
“Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument.”
Ratan Tata
CriticismResilience
“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
Woody Allen
“If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.”
Erma Bombeck
HumourResilience
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Chinese Proverb
Small StepsPersistence
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
African Proverb
ChallengesGrowth
“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
Miguel de Cervantes
“Faint heart never won fair lady.”
English Proverb
BoldnessLove
“Through hardships to the stars.”
Latin Proverb
PerseveranceShort Quotes
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”
Emily Dickinson
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”
Robert Browning
AmbitionPoetry
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Henry Stanley Haskins
Inner StrengthPotential
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
J. M. Barrie
Self BeliefDoubt
“Security is mostly a superstition. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.”Helen Keller
RiskAdventure
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”Martin Luther King Jr.
FaithFirst Step