Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen

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

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

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

To have courage for whatever comes in life —everything lies in that.

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

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

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

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

It takes honesty to stand up and admit your faults and fears.  It takes courage to work to understand and address them.