“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings
“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” – Bethany Hamilton
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron
“Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.” – Baltasar Gracián
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
“It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” – Charlie Chaplin
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” – Emma Donoghue
“It takes courage to step out of the familiar and embrace the unknown.” – Alan Cohen
“Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway.” – Harper Lee
“Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” – John F. Kennedy
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” – Clare Boothe Luce
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” – Helen Keller
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” – Brené Brown
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
“It takes courage to listen to your heart.” – Tom Freston
“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.” – Maya Angelou
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato
“It takes courage to live after you’ve wished yourself dead.” – Sarah Dessen
“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
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen.” – Brené Brown
“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.” – L. Frank Baum
“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” – Brené Brown
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” – Lao Tzu
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel
“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” – Mark Twain
“All happiness depends on courage and work.” – Honoré de Balzac
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
“Bravery is not the absence of fear but the action in the face of fear.” – Mark Messier
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Søren Kierkegaard
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.” – John Petit-Senn