Courage

16 quotes.

• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

  Nelson Mandela

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

  Winston Churchill

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

  E.E. Cummings

• Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

  Anonymous

• Count your smiles instead of your tears; Count your courage instead of your fears.

  Anonymous

• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

  Erica Jong

• God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

• I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

  Sandra Bullock

• 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

• Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

• Some wo(men) have thousand of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  Willis R. Whitney

• The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

• We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

• You cannot discover new ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

  Anonymous

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

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