Inspirational Quotes About Courage

It takes courage to live, doesn’t it?

It takes courage to be a parent, homeschooler, teacher, pastor, priest, doctor, lawyer, electrician, police officer, business owner, or secretary.

It takes courage to be a blogger, photographer, marketer, writer, artist, musician, or actor.

It takes courage to be a child.

Whether we realize it or not, courage is a necessary part of our day-to-day lives. We need it to speak our minds, do our jobs, parent our children, and make our meals.

(If you’ve ever burned your finger cooking, you’ll know what I mean by that last one.)

Courage can be the deciding factor between leading boring or exciting lives. It can mean the difference between success or failure of some task.

Without courage, we’d all be cowering in our corners watching the world go by.

I have some inspirational quotes about courage for you and your kids. They include uplifting words from people like Plato, Nelson Mandela, Dale Carnegie, and John Wayne. (Yee-haw!)

I hope these inspirational quotes lead you to a courageous life.

Quotes About Courage

Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway

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

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.
~ Nelson Mandela

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
~ Lauren Raffo

Always do what you are afraid to do.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~ Plato

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
~ Aristotle

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
~ Seneca

Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
~ Susan Gale

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
~ Arthur Koestler

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
~ Baltasar Gracian

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
~ Raymond Lindquist

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
~ Aesop

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Dorothy Bernard

Necessity does the work of courage.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler

The best way out is always through.
~ Robert Frost

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
~ Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~ Anais Nin

Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.
~ Jack Hyles

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
~ Michel de Montaigne

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
~ C.S. Lewis

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little.
~ Tori Amos

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne