Courage and Bravery

2. “You must always remember this: Have courage and be kind. You have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body. And it has power. More than you know.” —Brittany Candau

3. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” —Brené Brown

4. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” —Maya Angelou

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

6. “The secret to happiness is freedom … and the secret to freedom is courage.” —Thucydides

7. “Courage is being scared to death … and saddling up anyway.” —John Wayne

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

9. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anaïs Nin10. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” —Winston Churchill 

11. “Courage results when one’s convictions are bigger than one’s fears.” —Orrin Woodward

12. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” —Mark Twain

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

14. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” —Muhammad Ali

15. “Courage is grace under pressure.” —Ernest Hemingway

16. “The opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” —Jim Hightower

17. “Creativity takes courage.” —Henri Matisse

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

19. “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” —Margaret Mitchell

20. “Courage is the greatest of all virtues because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” —Samuel Johnson

21. “If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” —John Irving

22. “To have courage for whatever comes in life—everything lies in that.” —Saint Teresa of Ávila

23. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” —Vincent van Gogh

24. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” —Aristotle

25. “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

26. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on—it is going on when you don’t have strength.” —Napoleon Bonaparte

27. “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

28. “The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton29. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.” —Arthur Koestler

30. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” —Mary Anne Radmacher

31. “One man with courage is a majority.” —Thomas Jefferson

32. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” —George S. Patton

33. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” —Robert Louis Stevenson

34. “Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.” —David Ben-Gurion

35. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” —Erma Bombeck