Quotes About Courage, Confidence, and Bravery

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

— Christopher Robin

“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.”

— Brene Brown

“Courage isn’t having strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.”

— Mark Victor Hansen

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.”

— Stan Smith

“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.”

— Dr. Robert Anthony

“Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”

— Roger Staubach

“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”

— Raymond Lindquist

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

— Harper Lee

“Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered – just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.”

— Barrie Davenport

“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.”

— William Jennings Bryan

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”

— Anne Freud

“The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever you can do – or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Ambrose Redmoon

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”

— Dorothy Bernard

“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

— Harry Hoover

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

— Helen Keller

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”

— Mary Tyler Moore

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.”

— Amelia Earhart 

“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

— Marie Curie

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.”

— Isabelle Lafleche

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”

— Stephen King

“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

— Modified Serenity Prayer

“Self-confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.”

— Unknown

“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”

— Joyce Meyer

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”

— Rosa Parks

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

— Paulo Coelho

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

— Rosalynn Carter

“Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark; professionals built the Titanic.”

— Unknown

“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”

— Unknown

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

— Babe Ruth

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

— Robert F. Kennedy

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

“It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“You have to have confidence in your vision or else no one else will trust in it.”

— Mary Katrantzou

“Only those who risk going too far can find out how far one can go.”

— T.S. Eliot

“I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.”

— Serena Williams

“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.”

— Nelson Mandela

“If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

— Dale Carnegie

“What we need to do is say, “What’s the smallest, tiniest thing that I can master and what’s the scariest thing I can do in front of the smallest number of people that can teach me how to dance with the fear?” Once we get good at that, we just realize that it’s not fatal.

 — Seth Godin

“Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.”

— Frederick the Great

“How very little can be done under the spirt of fear.”

— Florence Nightingale

“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”

— Bryce Courtenay

“If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.”

— Katy Perry

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” 

— Arthur Ashe

“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”

— T. Harv Eker

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

—Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.”

— Brian Tracy

“Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.”

— Brené Brown

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