Quotes About Courage
The best quotes about courage: famous words from history's greatest minds to inspire you, free to read, copy, and share.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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This page collects the most famous quotes about courage from history's greatest thinkers, writers, and leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Plato. Each quote is shown with its author.
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