Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Inspirational Quotes About Courage
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
~ Erma Bombeck
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
~ Walt Disney
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~ James Neil Hollingworth
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
~ George Eliot
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~ Edmund Hillary
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
One man with courage is a majority.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
~ George Washington
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
~ Mark Twain
The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
~ Thucydides