Courage can be defined as a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear or it is a simple matter of overcoming your fears. It isn’t an easy task, but to overcome your fears and stride forward despite what chills your bones, or strikes at your heart: that is courage.
It doesn’t matter how great or small your fears are, to take those hard steps to overcome them is a courage. It is not an easy task for many, yet they do, and that is courage.

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

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney, How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004), Chapter: 3

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

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker

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

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength
Napoleon Bonaparte

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1995).

It’s easy to stand in the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah Winfrey

All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney, How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004), Chapter: 3

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.
Keshavan Nair

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Tom Krause

You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it yourself.
Glinda, The Wizard of Oz

Hope is wishing something would happen. Faith is believing something will happen. Courage is making something.
Anonymous

Never take someone’s feelings for granted because you never know how much courage that they took to show it to you.
Anonymous

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot, Preface to Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus (1931)

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in the presence of fear.
Bruce Lee

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon, L’Officiel (Summer 1980)

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”
Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter (1948)

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement address (12 June 2005)

With hope you gain courage. With courage you gain confidence, and with confidence there are no limits to what you can do.
Anonymous

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Robert Anthony

One of the happiest moments ever is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.
Anonymous

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore (1967)

Courage is not the absence of fear but the acquired ability to move beyond fear.
Matthew Kelly

Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.
Bethany Hamilton

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear.
Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries (2000)

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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, an essay, in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5 (August 1973)

It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come.
Robin Roberts, Everybody’s Got Something

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Chapter 12 (1894).

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Courage will follow when faith takes the lead.
Anonymous

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (2012)

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, Long Walk to Freedom (1995).

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867)

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.
Anonymous

Stars can’t shine without darkness.
D.H. Sidebottom, Fragile Truths (2014)

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
John Wooden

A brave smile on your face is your soul’s eternal spring to let the world know that it will keep on blooming in spite of the harsh winter.
Dodinsky

The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.
Anonymous

Sometimes the strongest among us are the ones who smile through silent pain, cry behind closed doors, and fight battles nobody knows about.
Anonymous

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.
Anaïs Nin, As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo (1995)

The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Without fear there cannot be courage.
Christopher Paolini

Courage and perseverance make difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams, Oration at Plymouth (1802)

Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.
Aster and Richter Abend in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living (1960)

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Tom Krause