Courage and bravery quotes

  • E E Cummings

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

  • Charlie Chaplin

    Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

  • Brene Brown

    Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

  • Thucydides

    The secret to happiness is freedom … and the secret to freedom is courage.

  • William Faulkner

    You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

  • Jonas Salk

    Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

  • Erma Bombeck

    It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

  • Anaïs Nin

    Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

  • Earl Nightingale

    All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  • Lao Tzu

    Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  • Winston Churchill

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

  • John Irving

    If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson

    Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

  • Zig Ziglar

    Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

  • Ruth Gordon

    Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

  • William Makepeace Thackeray

    Bravery never goes out of fashion.

  • Alan Alda

    Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

  • Mary E. DeMuth

    Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

  • Steve Jobs

    Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things

  • Pablo Casals

    It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Have the courage to act instead of react.

  • Mark Twain

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

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  • GT Shedd

    A ship in harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

  • Brene Brown

    Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid at the exact same time.

  • Thomas Crum

    Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll

    The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.