It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

—e.e. cummings

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

—Anais Nin

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

—Martin Luther King, Jr

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

—Helen Keller

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

—Gertrude Stein

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

—General Omar Bradley

Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

—Mark Twain

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

—Erica Jong

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

—Aristotle

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

—John Irving

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

—Winston Churchill

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

—Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

—Billy Graham

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

—Alice M. Swaim