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25 Quotes on Courage
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
— Ambrose Redmoon
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
— E. E. Cummings
“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
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
— Mark Twain
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.”
— Franklin P. Jones
“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
— Gone with the Wind (Character: Rhett Butler)
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
— The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Spoken by Gildor)
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
— Steve Jobs
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
— Muhammad Ali
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
— Maya Angelou
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
— Nelson Mandela
“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.”
— Maya Angelou
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
— To Kill a Mockingbird
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
— Plato
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
— Mark Twain
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— William Faulkner
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
— Winston Churchill
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
— Paulo Coelho
“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.”
— The Princess Diaries
“Fortune favors the brave.”
— Virgil (Latin: Fortes fortuna adiuvat)
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