Courage Quotes

"Ask yourself, what would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"I was once afraid of people saying, ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now, I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am.'"

- Oprah Winfrey

"Opportunities, the good ones, they’re messy and confusing and hard to recognize. They’re risky. They challenge you."

- Susan Wojcicki

"Only the paranoid survive."

- Andy Grove

"You have to get good at ceding control and not taking things personally. Even seasoned entrepreneurs have struggled with that. I think it’s about not taking failures personally and also not taking successes personally."

- Leila Janah

"Sometimes, it doesn’t hurt to ask. I have been in the news many times just by calling on the news channel and asking them about featuring my business."

- Lori Cheek

"If something is important enough, or you believe something is important enough, even if you are scared, you will keep going."

- Elon Musk

"You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you."

- Josephine Baker

"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down."

- Arianna Huffington

"Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force."

- Major Alexander P. de Seversky, USAAF

"A champion is someone who gets up, even when they can’t."

- Natalie Rogers

"We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

- Winston Churchill

"There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity."

- General Douglas MacArthur

"He loves his country best who strives to make it best."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."

- General Douglas MacArthur

"Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn’t afraid of anything anymore."

- Melissa Etheridge

"I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance."

- Wanda Sykes

"Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like."

- Lynn Jones

"It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright."

- Robin Roberts

"I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight."

- Carly Simon

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms."

- Cynthia Nixon

"I know how to put on my battle gear and I'm a fighter."

- Suzanne Somers

"Surviving cancer treatment is like coming home from war."

- Saskia Lightstar

"Your graduation is a testament to your intelligence and your ability to overcome challenges. Keep reaching for the stars, my daughter!"

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"We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell."

- Lance Armstrong

"Fearless does not mean you aren’t afraid; it means you accept the fear and move forward anyway."

- Brianne Joseph

"And if it comes back, I’ll keep fighting."

- Nicole Kramer

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Freedom is never free."