1. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

Nelson Mandela

 

 

2. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

E.E. Cummings

 

 

3. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

Mark Twain

 

 

4. "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

Mignon McLaughlin

 

 

5. "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

William Faulkner

 

 

6. "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

Maya Angelou

 

 

7. "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

 

 

8. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

Eddie Rickenbacker

 

 

9. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao Tzu

 

 

10. "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." 

Raymond Lindquist

 

 

11. "Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen." 

Brené Brown

 

 

12. "The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

Daniel J. Boorstin

 

 

13. "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

14. "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

 

 

15. "Courage is found in unlikely places."

J.R.R. Tolkien

 

 

16. "Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount." 

Clare Boothe Luce

 

 

17. "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."

Søren Kierkegaard

 

 

18. "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

T.S. Eliot

 

 

19. "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."

Thucydides

 

 

20. "Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."

Winston S. Churchill