"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anaïs Nin

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. "
— Victor Hugo

"Courage is grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.

To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.

To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."
— Bernard Edmond

""A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."
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— William Shedd

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear."
— Meg Cabot

"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

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

"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

"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

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

"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."
— George Orwell

"You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."
— L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

"it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done."
— Amelia Earhart

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
— John Quincy Adams

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
— Shirley Maclaine

"One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."
— François de La Rochefoucauld (Maxims)

"All happiness depends on courage and work."
— Honoré de Balzac

"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is."
— John Lancaster Spaulding

"Do anything, save to lie down and die!"
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

"One man with courage makes a majority."
— Andrew Jackson

"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. "
— Erma Bombeck

"Every man gives his life for what he believes ... one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe."
— Joan of Arc

"My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines."
— Trieu Thi Trinh

"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the
person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something
about it that makes a difference.
"
— Nolan Bushnell

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some great good.
"
— Brian Tracy

"When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph."
— A. Alvarez

"All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even, perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let use begin."
— John F. Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)