Courage Quotes

Courage is not the absence of fear — it is acting in spite of it. These quotes celebrate the brave hearts who dared to be different, took risks, and changed the world by refusing to play small.

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

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Anais Nin

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— E.E. Cummings

"Courage is grace under pressure."

— Ernest Hemingway

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

— Steve Jobs

"Fortune favors the bold."

— Virgil

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Mark Twain

"It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog."

— Mark Twain

"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."

— Alan Alda

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Brené Brown

"Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important."

— Mark Manson

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

— T.S. Eliot

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

— Nelson Mandela

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

— John A. Shedd

"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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