Top 171 Courage Quotes

Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it. These quotes on courage celebrate the moments people chose to be brave: speaking up, standing firm, and stepping forward when it would have been easier to retreat.

Good manners are a sign of strength.
Dick Francis
Dick Francis
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You find your strengths and play them up.
Kate Upton
Kate Upton
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The race belongs not only to the swift and strong but to those who keep on running.
Zoe Koplowitz
Zoe Koplowitz
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Some people don't like you just because your strength reminds them of their weakness. Don't let the hate slow you down.
Therma Davis
Therma Davis
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A bold onset is half the battle.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
Tobio
Tobio
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There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.
Jiminy Carter
Jiminy Carter
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If you are not prepared to look at your pupils' strengths, don't touch their weaknesses.
Reuven Feuerstein
Reuven Feuerstein
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The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.
Jim Hopper
Jim Hopper
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Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.
Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle
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Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
Shawn Johnson
Shawn Johnson
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Fear is like fire, if you extinguish it while it's small, it won't become an inferno.
Evy Pournpouras
Evy Pournpouras
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The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.
Jonathan Harnisch
Jonathan Harnisch
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If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.
Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey
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The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Corina Macgregor Amory
Corina Macgregor Amory
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You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served.
Terri Edwards
Terri Edwards
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I have my own strength.
Nina Hagen
Nina Hagen
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Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
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The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Ron Doherty
Ron Doherty
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Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
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When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
HP Lovecraft
HP Lovecraft
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Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up.
Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth
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