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20 GREAT QUOTES ON COURAGE


1.      “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill

2.      “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
E.E. Cummings

3.      “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Coco Chanel

4.      “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
Maya Angelou

5.      “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

6.      “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
William Faulkner

7.      “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
C. JoyBell C.

8.      “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
Erica Jong

9.      “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
William G.T. Shedd

10.  “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Anaïs Nin

11.  “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
August Wilson

12.  “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
Jane Austen

13.  “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
Jalaluddin Rumi

14.  “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain

15.  “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
Emma Donoghue

16.  “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
Paulo Coelho

17.  “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

18.  “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

19.  “Freedom lies in being bold.”
Robert Frost
“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
Erica Jong


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