Courage quotes

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

Fortune favors the bold.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall never surrender.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The time is always right to do what is right.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Fortune favors the brave.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

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

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.