Courage

Courage quotes gather strength for fear, illness, change, truth-telling and new beginnings, helping readers move forward before confidence fully arrives. Copy it for a friend, keep it close, or download the quote as a free image card for sharing.

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

— Winston Churchill

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

— Maya Angelou

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

— E.E. Cummings

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

— Mark Twain