Quotes and sayings on courage

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

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

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
Robertson Davies

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson

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

All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

All serious daring starts from within.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Theodore H. White

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce