- “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
- “The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” – J.K. Rowling
- “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
- “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner
- “Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” – Omar N. Bradley
- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
- “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” – Brené Brown
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
- “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
- “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot
- “The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” – Mignon McLaughlin
- “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.” – St. Catherine of Siena
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
- “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou
- “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill
- “Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” – Seneca
- “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
- “The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.” – Meg Cabot
- “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.” – Dale Carnegie
- “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John A. Shedd
- “Bravery never goes out of fashion.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain
- “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
- “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” – Billy Graham
- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide
- “You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” – Brené Brown
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” – Carrie Jones
- “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
- “The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” – Thomas Paine
- “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid.” – Robert Liparulo
- “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
- “There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.” – L. Frank Baum
- “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.” – Maya Angelou
- “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” – Arianna Huffington
- “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” – Clare Boothe Luce
- “The brave do not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.” – Unknown
- “Bravery is the audacity to be unhindered by failures, and to walk with freedom, strength, and hope, in the face of things unknown.” – Morgan Harper Nichols
- “Without bravery, you will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings
- “Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart.” – Brené Brown
- “Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.” – Brené Brown
- “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green
- “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.” – Rollo May
- “Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Courage is a love affair with the unknown.” – Osho
- “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle
- “It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- “Courage doesn’t always have to roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” – Søren Kierkegaard
- “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.” – Maya Angelou
- “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato
- “Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.” – Earl Wilson
- “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” – Theodore Roosevelt