It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
It takes courage to stand up and speak. It also takes courage to sit down and listen.
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Have the courage to be who you want to be, in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
— Seneca
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
To live without hope is to cease to live.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Fortune favors the bold.
— Virgil
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
The best way out is always through.
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
You must always be willing to work without applause.
One man with courage is a majority.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Leap, and the net will appear.
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Courage means standing up for what is right, even when it’s difficult.
— Unknown
Fear cuts deeper than swords.
It takes courage to sit down and listen.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.
One man with courage makes a majority.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
— Plato
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.
The secret to happiness is freedom... and the secret to freedom is courage.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.