Quotes about Courage

When life puts you in touchy situations, don't say 'Why me?' Just say 'Try me'.

The most important conversation is the one you have with yourself.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things.

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

The only people who are educated are those who have learned how to learn and change.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

You have to be willing to take criticism seriously, but not personally. You have to hear what others say without being defensive. You have to challenge yourself constantly, asking, 'Am I wrong?'

I think you're born with a certain kind of courage that is other people's not understanding that.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

I'm not afraid to take a stand for what I believe in. Even if no one agrees with me, at least I'll know I stood up for myself.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to the world.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.