Courage is defined as the ability to control your fear in a dangerous or difficult situation. May these quotes inspire you to be a courageous individual so that you may live your dreams.
1. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E.E. Cummings
2. “Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.” Vaclav Havel
3. “It takes courage to deal with failures. It takes courage to admit when you are wrong.” R Dooley
4. “Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.” William T. Sherman
5. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
6. “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” Winston Churchill
7. “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8. “Inhale courage. Exhale fear.” Anonymous
9. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” Mark Twain
10. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
11. “Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.” Napoleon Bonaparte
12. “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
13. “Hate is easy. Love takes courage.” Anonymous
14. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill
15. “Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” Anonymous
16. “Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” Tom Krause
17. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” J.R.R. Tolkien
18. “Truth is the best arrow and courage the finest bow.” Eva Ritchey
19. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin
20. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” Oprah Winfrey
21. “Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.” A.W. Hare
22. “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
23. “One man with courage makes a majority.” Andrew Jackson
24. “My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.” Jenna Jameson
25. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.” Nelson Mandela
26. “Courage, dear heart.” C.S. Lewis
27. “It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.” Mahatma Gandhi
28. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” Vincent Van Gogh
29. “Courage is the love affair with the unknown.” Osho
30. “Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest.” Maya Angelou
31. “You can choose courage or you can choose comfort. But you cannot choose both.” Anonymous
32. “What good are wings without the courage to fly?” Atticus
33. “If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” David Viscott
34. “There will always be fear; do it anyway. Let your courage inspire the world around you.” Steve Maraboli
