Courage Quotes
14 quotes on courage, with Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Luther King Jr. among the most quoted here. Tap an author to see all of their quotes, or browse other themes.
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Meditations 8.47 (George Long translation).
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint."
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
"It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure."
"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail."
From "Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers" (1903); often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
"Courage is grace under pressure."
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
From The Citizen of the World (1762); often misattributed to Nelson Mandela.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin."
"Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase."
Attributed: recalled by Marian Wright Edelman; not found in King's published speeches or writings.
"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."