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Courage Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COURAGE
Courage Quotes
Read 200 of the best courage quotes about facing fear, moral courage and bravery from Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Mark Twain, C.S. Lewis, Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh and more.
“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”Rosa Parks
Moral CourageIntegrity
“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
Ovid
LoveBravery
“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practise being brave.”
Mary Tyler Moore
GrowthFailure
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
Billy Graham
LeadershipInspiration
“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”
Ray Bradbury
RiskTrust
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
Malala Yousafzai
Speaking UpMoral Courage
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.”Susan B. Anthony
ReformMoral Courage
“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”Napoleon Bonaparte
“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
Benjamin Disraeli
BullyingShort Quotes
“Creativity takes courage.”
Henri Matisse
CreativityShort Quotes
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Anaïs Nin
LifeGrowth
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
E. E. Cummings
AuthenticityGrowing Up
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”Helen Keller
ConfidenceDignity
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Seneca
DaringChallenges
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour.”Aristotle
HonourVirtue
“Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.”
Robert F. Kennedy
Moral CourageIntegrity
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
FearAction
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Vincent van Gogh
TryingLife
“The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.”
Kalpana Chawla
DreamsPerseverance
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
André Gide
DiscoveryRisk
“When troubles come, laugh at them; there is nothing like that to overcome them.”
Thiruvalluvar
ResilienceLaughter
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”Martin Luther King Jr.
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
Amelia Earhart
“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
Everyday CouragePerseverance