Quotes About Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Quitting is leading too.

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

I learned that courage was 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." "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Let your courage rise with danger.

If I had my time over I would do the same again, so would any man who dares call himself a man.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. From a letter to Winnie Mandela,

Don't Judge a person by his success stories, but only with how many times the person stood up, after falling down.

The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirit strong, even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation. Your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

The grave plight of the people compels them to resist to the death the stinking policies of the gangsters that rule our country….

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the TRIUMPH over it

It is one thing to be told of possible hardships ahead, it is entirely another to have to confront them in reality.