Courage quotes

Quotes about being brave, facing fears, and stepping outside your comfort zone. Browse more in the Motivational app.

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

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Anaïs Nin

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Mark Twain

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

— E.E. Cummings

"Fortune favors the brave."

— Virgil

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