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1. "Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be."

— David Goggins

2. "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

 — Vincent Van Gogh

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

— E.E. Cummings

4. "Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are."

— Amit Ray

5. "Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

6. "Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

— Baltasar Gracian

7. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

8. "Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

— Benjamin Disraeli

9. "Courage is knowing what not to fear."

— Platov

10. "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

— Harper Lee,

11. "The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

— Jim Hightower

12. "You must always remember this: Have courage and be kind. You have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body. And it has power. More than you know."

— Brittany Candau

 13. "Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength."

— Napoléon Bonaparte

14. "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

— George S. Patton

15. "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

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

— Brené Brown

17. "Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success."

— Joshua 1:7-8

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

— William Faulkner

19. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

— Winston Churchill

20. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

— Coco Chanel



21. "Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you."

— Bethany Hamilton

22. "The secret to happiness is freedom … and the secret to freedom is courage."

— Thucydides

23. "The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

— R. G. Ingersoll

24. "Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

25. "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

26. "My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you."

— Jenna Jameson

 27. "Courage is being scared to death … and saddling up anyway."

— John Wayne

28. "Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow."

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Mark Twain

31. "Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it."

— Timothy Dalton

32. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

— Anaïs Nin

33. "Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock." 

— Unknown

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

— E.E. Cummings

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— William Faulkner

37. "Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life." 

— Zig Ziglar

 38. "Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life."

—  Shannon L. Adler

 39. "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

— Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

40. "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." 

— John F. Kennedy



41. "Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads."

— Erica Jong

42." Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." 

— Ruth Gordon

43. "Courage results when one’s convictions are bigger than one’s fears."

— Orrin Woodward

44. "To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage."

— Henri Matisse

45. "Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength."

— Napoleon Bonaparte

46. "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy." 

— Dale Carnegie

47. "Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

— Maya Angelou

48. "Courage originally meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.’ " 

— Brené Brown

 49."Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not the absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave."

— Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson

50. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

— Coco Chanel

51. "Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway."

— John Wayne

52. "It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind."

— Alex Karras

53. "Courage is grace under pressure." 

— Ernest Hemingway

54. "For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again."

— Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

55. "Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become."

— Robert Fanney

56. "Creativity takes courage."

— Henri Matisse

57. "To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them."

— Picabo Street

58. "Courage is found in unlikely places."

— J.R.R. Tolkien

59. "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." 

— Maya Angelou

60. "With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."

— Margaret Mitchell



61. "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

— Winston Churchill

62. "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, Veronika Decides to Die

63. "Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run, it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

— Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn By Living (1960)

64 ."Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

— Andre Gide

65. "The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."

— Thucydides

66. "All happiness depends on courage and work."

— Honoré de Balzac

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

— Eddie Rickenbacker

68. "If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."

— John Irving

69. "I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage."

— Anne Frank

70. "Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar."

— Erica Jong

71. "Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."

— John Wayne

72. "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

— Winston Churchill

73. "To have the courage for whatever comes in life—everything lies in that."

— Saint Teresa of Ávila

 74. "Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving."

— Madeleine L'Engle

75. "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

— Vincent Van Gogh

76. "My message, especially to young people is to have the courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people."

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

77. "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

78. "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

— Aristotle

79. "When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don’t feel that I’m being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. […] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love."

— Michael Jackson

80. "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

— Andre Gide



81. "Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness." 

— Brené Brown

82. "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

83. "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

84. "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

85. "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." 

— Aristotle

86. "There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty." 

— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

87. "Courage isn’t having the strength to go on—it is going on when you don’t have strength."

— Napoleon Bonaparte

88. "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."

— Aristotle

89. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' "

— Eleanor Roosevelt

90. "Have the courage to use your own reason!"

— Immanuel Kant

91. "The best protection any woman can have … is courage."

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

92. "I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster."

— Catherine the Great

93. "Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him."

— George R.R. Martin

 94. "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."

— Confucius

95. "Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."

— W. Clement Stone

96. "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."

— Alan Cohen

97. "Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness." 

— R.J. Palacio

 98. "Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."

— Arthur Koestler

99. "It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it."

— Sue Hadfield

100. "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." 

— Robert Green Ingersoll


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