“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”Martin Luther King Jr.
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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.
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
PerseveranceHope
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass
StruggleProgress
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Desmond Tutu
JusticeMoral Courage
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Elie Wiesel
JusticeSpeaking Up
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank
ActionMaking A Difference
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”Helen Keller
AdventureDaring
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart
ActionDecisions
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
Marie Curie
FearUnderstanding
“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”Rosa Parks
FearDecisions
“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
PerseveranceBravery
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
J. K. Rowling
Moral CourageFriendship
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
CouragePossibility
“You have plenty of courage, I am sure. All you need is confidence in yourself.”
L. Frank Baum
ConfidenceSelf Belief
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.”
Paulo Coelho
ChallengesChange
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
Brené Brown
VulnerabilityShowing Up
“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot have both.”
Brené Brown
Comfort ZoneChoice
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell
FearTreasure
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
Jack Canfield
“Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
Susan Jeffers
FearAction
“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it; that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”
Dale Carnegie
FearPersistence
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
Les Brown
“F-E-A-R has two meanings: "Forget Everything And Run" or "Face Everything And Rise." The choice is yours.”Zig Ziglar
FearChoice
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
ResilienceShort Quotes
“It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.”
Irish Proverb