It takes a lot of courage to go after our dreams. Many people are faced with ridicule and laughter on top of obstacles and failures. Following one’s dreams can be a daunting task, one with lots of uncertainty and moments of pain. However, don’t let any of that stop you from achieving the things you want in life. It’ll still be scary but let your desire be stronger than your fears. I hope these courage quotes will give you the mental strength to pursue your dreams.
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” – Dr. Robert Anthony
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” – Paulo Coelho
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Unknown
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Epicurus
“All serious daring starts from within.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” – Clare Booth Luce
“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.” – Bernadette Devlin
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.” – Baltasar Gracian
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – R. G. Ingersoll
“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.” – Robert Cody
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” – Tom Krause
“Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.” – Arthur Koestler
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – William Shedd
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” – Sven Goran Eriksson
“If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” – John Maxwell
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
“He who moves not forward, goes backward.” – Wolfgang von Goethe
“Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.” – Winston Churchill
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.” – Unknown
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Unknown
“What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” – John Maxwell
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.” – Dorothy Thompson
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” – Erma Bombeck
“Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there’s really nothing to lose.” – Jewel
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” – Aristotle
“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.” – Theodore H. White
“God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.” – Reggie White
“All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
