Courage Quotes and Sayings

Courage is the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
- David Ben Gurion

If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

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

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
- Mignon McLaughlin

From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- George Smith Patton

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
- Maya Angelou

I’m not funny.  What I am is brave.
- Lucille Ball

A brave arm makes a short sword long.
- Author Unknown

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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
- William Shakespeare

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
- Samuel Johnson

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

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

The key to change is to let go of fear.
- Rosanne Cash

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
- Sven Goran Eriksson

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