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Courage as defined by people who actually had some.
  1. 'You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.' — Eleanor Roosevelt You Learn by Living
  2. 'Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.' — Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Often paraphrased.
  3. 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.' — E.E. Cummings
  4. 'Be brave enough to be bad at something new.' — Jon Acuff Finish
    Practical.
  5. 'Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.' — Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement
  6. 'Fortune favors the bold.' — Virgil Aeneid
    Latin: audentes Fortuna iuvat.
  7. 'I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.' — Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
  8. 'It is not the critic who counts...' — Theodore Roosevelt The Man in the Arena
    Whole speech.
  9. 'You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.' — Mary Tyler Moore
  10. 'Whatever you are, be a good one.' — Abraham Lincoln (probably)
    Disputed but useful.