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