Courage Quotes

A carefully selected Top 10 list of the best courage quotes to inspire you on this magnificent whirlwind journey of life.

You know you've made it this far in life; then you know there's a deep well of courage already inside of you, waiting to be drawn from whenever needed. Sometimes one more step forward in the right direction is all that's needed to succeed.

A Top 10 List of Courage Quotes

1:

"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



2:

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

- Erma Bombeck 1927 - 1996 : Writer and humorist



3:

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence
by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face…
we must do that which we think we cannot."

- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962 : First Lady and politician



4:

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on -
it is going on when you don't have strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821 : Military and political leader



5:

"Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage."

- John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963 : 35th U.S. President



6:

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

- Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965 : Prime Minister of Great Britain twice



7:

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

- Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 : Author, humourist and speaker



8:

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

- John Quincy Adams 1767 - 1848 : 6th U.S. President



9:

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

- J.R.R.Tolkien 1892 - 1973 : Writer, poet, and philologist



10:

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

- Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890 : Dutch painter

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And the best of the rest…

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love
and in that heart courage to make love known?"

- William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 : Playwright, poet and actor



"I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love.
Let me be myself and then I am satisfied.
I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage."

- Anne Frank 1929 - 1945



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

- Maya Angelou

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