•“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” 
― Jane Austen

•“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” 
― Erica Jong

•“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” 
― Winston Churchill

•“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.” 
― Thucydides

•“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.” 
― Napoleon Bonaparte

•“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.” 
― John F. Kennedy 

•“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” 
― Hellen Keller

•“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” 
― William G.T. Shedd

•“Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.” 
― Sophie Scholl

•“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!” 
― Steve Maraboli

•“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.” 
― Mary Tyler Moore

•“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” 
― Andr Gide

•“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.” 
―Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

•“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” 
― Paulo Coelho

•“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” 
― Theodore Roosevelt

•“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” 
― Carrie Jones

•“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” 
― William Shakespeare

•“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” 
― Nelson Mandela

•“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.” 
― Mary Anne Radmacher

•“Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” 
― Walt Disney Company

•“It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.” 
― Marianne Williamson

•“If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable.” 
― C. JoyBell C.

•“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.” 
― Lemony Snicket

•“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” 
―Orison Swett Marden 

•“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.” 
― Ana Nin

•“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” 
― Epicurus 

•“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” 
― Robert Louis Stevenson

•“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” 
― Lao Tzu

•“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” 
― Samuel Johnson 

•“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” 
― Nelson Mandela

•“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” 
― Robert Green Ingersoll 

•“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” 
― Thomas Merton

•“I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.” 
― Loretta Young 

•“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” 
― Mary Tyler Moore

•“Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.” 
― N.D. Wilson

•“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” 
― Billy Graham 

•“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” 
― Thomas S. Monson 

•“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” 
― Ann Landers

•“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” 
― Anais Nin 

•“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.” 
― Maya Angelou

•“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” 
― Harper Lee 

•“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” 
― Reinhold Niebuhr 

•“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.” 
― Charlotte Bront

•“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ” 
― C.S. Lewis

•“Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.” 
― Piers Anthony

•“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” 
― John Quincy Adams

•“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” 
― Confucius 

•“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.” 
― Victor Hugo

•“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” 
― Albert Camus 

•“The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.” 
― Carl Lewis 

•“Where the brave don't have the guts to question their immortal duty, cowards are rash about survival.” 
― Bauvard

•“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

•“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” 
― E. F. Schumacher 

•“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” 
― Maya Angelou

•“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.” 
― Madeleine L'Engle

•“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” 
― Maya Angelou

•“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.” 
― Rollo May 

•“If you have the courage to love, then you should have the courage to suffer, too.” 
― E.H. Majaw

•“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” 
― Mark Twain

•“Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.” 
― Blaine Lee Pardoe

•“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” 
― Paulo Coelho

•“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)” 
― Rollo May

•“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.” 
― Ambrose Redmoon

•“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.” 
― Terry Goodkind

•“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” 
― Maya Angelou

•“I have accepted fear as part of life specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back
― Erica Jong

•“you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” 
― Michelle Obama 

•“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” 
― Nora Ephron

•“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” 
― Mark Twain

•“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” 
― Winston Churchill