Courage Quotes
Powerful courage quotes about strength bravery and overcoming fear with determination and inner fortitude.
21 quotes
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
— Mark Twain
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
— E.E. Cummings
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.”
— Alan Alda
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”
— John Wayne
“The only way to develop courage is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”
— William Jennings Bryan
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
— Plato
“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
— Maya Angelou
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
— Winston Churchill
“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble.”
— Keshavan Nair
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
— A.A. Milne
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
— Mark Twain
“Fear has two meanings: 'Forget Everything and Run' or 'Face Everything and Rise.' The choice is yours.”
— Zig Ziglar