Top 100 True Courage Quotes
#1. True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#2. It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.
Eliot Pattison
#4. True courage is in knowing that there is nothing to scare you.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Courage is not the absence of fear; true courage is manifest in bravely doing what has to be done in spite of fears or foes or the foolishness of the crowd or the taunts of the group. True courage is doing the right thing in spite of the odds or opposition or apprehension.
Emerson Roy West
#6. True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Jeremy Collier
#7. True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.
Debbie Ford
#8. True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not.
Jules Renard
#9. The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel De Montaigne
#10. True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead
#11. True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
John Petit-Senn
#12. TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!
John Wayne
#13. True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.
Mas Oyama
#14. True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don't let it stop you, that is true courage. There's never bravery without fear. Just as there's no love without hate. (M'Adoc)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
Cato The Elder
#17. In a world full of quitters, it takes true courage to commit to marriage renewal. If you want a field manual for restoring your relationship, get The Phoenix Marriage: God creates beauty out of ashes.
Tony Jeary
#18. True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.
Jeremy Collier
#19. Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
Phillips Brooks
#20. This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.
Charles Kingsley
#21. Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it.
Erica Jong
#22. Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
L. Frank Baum
#24. The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.
Hill Harper
#25. It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.
Silvia Hartmann
#26. The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#27. Dreams are reality that has not become true. However, in the hearts of some people, they have already come true. People whose dreams are already achieved in their hearts, and who can see that as they boldly throw themselves into it, have true courage.
Ilchi Lee
#28. True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.
Martina Boone
#31. Set a challenge for yourself and challenge yourself to set a challenge for others to challenge themselves. True strength, true wisdom, true tenacity and true courage is best seen when it is in motion! Take action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#33. It is how we perceive ourselves that matters. True courage isn't about being brave. True beauty isn't about being beautiful. True courage is about being real. True beauty is about being happy.
R.K. Ryals
#34. Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
Philip Sidney
#35. By opening the door to my life, it is my hope and mission to shed light on the hidden wounds of abuse, to end the stigma and shame associated with abuse, and to show survivors true courage, strength, inspiration, and determination.
Erin Merryn
#36. In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
Brenda Ueland
#39. Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke
#40. There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.
Marion D. Hanks
#41. Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#42. Cowards and courage make for great conflict. Embodied within the statement above is the idea that imperfect heroes are the most satisfying because true courage is facing what you fear, trying even though the odds of failure are great. Internal
Debra Dixon
#43. True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.' She
Robin Hobb
#44. True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.
Christopher Pike
#46. Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke
#47. True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
William Bennett
#48. True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway
Victor Castelo
#49. Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.
Edmund Burke
#50. True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.
L. Frank Baum
#51. True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#52. It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth!
Yvonne Pierre
#53. True courage is the willingness to fully experience whatever you are feeling at the moment. You can attempt to run from your emotions, but eventually they will catch up with you. They will chase you, haunt you, until finally you give up the chase.
Brandon Bays
#54. true courage is not knowing when to take a life, but when to spare one"
~Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien
#55. True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
Tobias Smollett
#57. The brave aren't called the brave because they weren't scared, Elena, neither the courageous, nor the heroes. All of those people written in history have one thing in common: fear, and plenty of it, but that is when true courage shows itself
Adrienne Woods
#58. True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone.
Richard C. Edgley
#59. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid ...
L. Frank Baum
#60. True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions.
~ from the book "Do Hard Things
Alex Brett Harris
#61. Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.
Lisa Belkin
#62. Stay put and you will remain as such. Jump in and you might get wet. Dive and you might find true happiness.
Carol Vorvain
#63. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.
Paulo Coelho
#64. Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.
Paul Bourget
#65. Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Salman Rushdie
#66. Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.
Jeanette Lee
#67. You cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
Maia Wojciechowska
#68. There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve
#69. Remarkably, the most common regret of the dying was this: they wish they'd had the courage to live a life true to themselves and not the life others expected of them.
Donald Miller
#70. True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.
Dwight L. Moody
#71. Vision is the code that decodes every mediocrity out of life.
Auliq Ice
#72. When you are a real queen, there is absolutely no reason to try and make people believe that you are one. Because you just are. Life is lived with grace, courage, and serenity. If you must dedicate any amount of time and mental ability to making anyone believe that you are one; you're not!
C. JoyBell C.
#73. War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
Alexander Berkman
#74. This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?
Lisi Harrison
#76. To think that all we've known to be true is not necessarily an absolute is unsettling and almost incomprehensible, and so to walk the road of acceptance and peace often takes more courage than the way of the warrior.
R.A. Salvatore
#77. Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
Stephen King
#78. What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.
Dallin H. Oaks
#79. The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.
Oprah Winfrey
#80. To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
John O'Donohue
#81. Who would true Valour see,
Let him come hither
John Bunyan
#82. To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
Picabo Street
#83. Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one?
Jill Telford
#84. There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy.
Dennis Merzel
#85. Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.
Patsie Smith
#87. It would be a word of empowerment, imagine every word coming from your mouth with a true desire to offer help to people knowing they are themselves powerful but need upliftment sometimes.
Harshada Pathare
#88. I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.
Alice Steinbach
#89. A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#90. Grant me courage to serve others;
For in service there is true life.
Cesar Chavez
#92. It's not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of uncertainty. We must meet fear face-to-face. We must take our dreams as maps for a greater journey. Dreams, to come true, need a good story. So go live one.
Vironika Tugaleva
#93. So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.
Catherynne M Valente
#94. True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.
William J. Clinton
#95. Love is anything but safe, it's wild and raw and will rip at your heart strings but once you've tasted it for the very first time it becomes like an addiction feeling nostalgia when seperated for another beating heart & before them you question where you called home.
Nikki Rowe
#97. If it's true that God gives you the desires of your heart, then it is imperative that you know your desires and have the courage to communicate them. It is God who places the desires of your life in your heart.
Lisa Jimenez
#99. But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
C.S. Lewis
#100. A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
Douglas MacArthur
