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Courage Cryptogram Puzzles

Courage gets misunderstood. The most useful definitions — the ones that actually help when you need them — tend to come from people who know what fear feels like: soldiers, reformers, athletes, writers who put their real selves on the page. The quotes in this collection don't romanticize courage as the absence of fear; most of them define it as action in spite of fear, which is a more honest and more useful way to think about it. These are words from people who have been tested: Nelson Mandela writing from prison, Eleanor Roosevelt stepping into rooms she wasn't supposed to enter, Amelia Earhart taking off anyway. The cryptogram format suits these quotes well — working through difficulty to find the answer is itself a small act of persistence.

Solver tip:Courage quotes frequently use the word "fear" — short, common, and often the key that unlocks a cascade of other letters.
131 puzzles32 easy72 medium27 hard
Nelson Mandela
47 letters · 12 words
Easy
Eleanor Roosevelt
91 letters · 20 words
Hard
E.E. Cummings
46 letters · 12 words
Medium
Winston Churchill
68 letters · 16 words
Medium
John F. Kennedy
55 letters · 10 words
Easy
Steve Jobs
89 letters · 19 words
Hard
Dale Carnegie
58 letters · 10 words
Medium
Winston Churchill
79 letters · 21 words
Medium
Nelson Mandela
60 letters · 15 words
Medium
Eddie Rickenbacker
71 letters · 18 words
Medium
Muhammad Ali
64 letters · 14 words
Medium
Mark Twain
54 letters · 12 words
Easy
Thucydides
59 letters · 13 words
Medium
Paulo Coelho
46 letters · 8 words
Easy
Robert F. Kennedy
50 letters · 11 words
Easy
Maya Angelou
59 letters · 10 words
Medium
Nelson Mandela
62 letters · 17 words
Medium
Walt Disney
53 letters · 14 words
Medium
Louisa May Alcott
49 letters · 15 words
Easy
Margaret Mitchell
43 letters · 9 words
Easy
Robert G. Ingersoll
63 letters · 14 words
Medium
Emma Donoghue
47 letters · 12 words
Medium
Amelia Earhart
62 letters · 14 words
Medium
Thomas Carlyle
139 letters · 23 words
Hard
George Whitefield
76 letters · 19 words
Medium
Jeff Bezos
58 letters · 14 words
Medium
C.S. Lewis
73 letters · 18 words
Medium
Ernest Hemingway
64 letters · 13 words
Medium
Winston Churchill
42 letters · 10 words
Easy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40 letters · 9 words
Easy
A.A. Milne
97 letters · 20 words
Hard
Oprah Winfrey
41 letters · 12 words
Easy
Roy T. Bennett
94 letters · 21 words
Hard
Carrie Fisher
78 letters · 19 words
Medium
Denis Waitley
96 letters · 24 words
Hard
Harper Lee
67 letters · 16 words
Medium
Ralph Waldo Emerson
61 letters · 16 words
Medium
Clare Boothe Luce
45 letters · 10 words
Easy
J.K. Rowling
81 letters · 23 words
Medium
Joseph Campbell
44 letters · 11 words
Easy
Theodore Roosevelt
51 letters · 15 words
Easy
John Quincy Adams
99 letters · 16 words
Hard
Orison Swett Marden
75 letters · 15 words
Medium
Buddha
92 letters · 21 words
Hard
Christopher Columbus
68 letters · 17 words
Medium
Heart Warrior Chosa
71 letters · 15 words
Medium
Billy Graham
77 letters · 17 words
Medium
William Shakespeare
70 letters · 15 words
Medium
Thomas Jefferson
68 letters · 16 words
Medium
Alexander Hamilton
40 letters · 8 words
Easy
Muhammad Ali
87 letters · 23 words
Hard
Michael Jordan
81 letters · 18 words
Medium
Vince Lombardi
40 letters · 10 words
Easy
Arthur Ashe
125 letters · 28 words
Hard
Abigail Adams
96 letters · 18 words
Hard
Amelia Earhart
77 letters · 16 words
Medium
Amelia Earhart
84 letters · 21 words
Medium
Audre Lorde
107 letters · 27 words
Hard
Ayn Rand
53 letters · 16 words
Easy
Billy Graham
72 letters · 16 words
Medium
Bob Marley
59 letters · 14 words
Medium
Brad Henry
53 letters · 13 words
Easy
Carrie Fisher
122 letters · 28 words
Hard
Carrie Fisher
55 letters · 16 words
Easy
Clare Boothe Luce
126 letters · 34 words
Hard
Douglas MacArthur
41 letters · 8 words
Easy
Eddie Rickenbacker
69 letters · 16 words
Medium
Eddie Rickenbacker
70 letters · 15 words
Medium
Edmund Burke
63 letters · 16 words
Medium
Edmund Burke
71 letters · 17 words
Medium
Erma Bombeck
49 letters · 13 words
Medium
Florence Nightingale
42 letters · 11 words
Medium
Frederick Douglass
62 letters · 15 words
Medium
Gene Tunney
55 letters · 11 words
Easy
Gene Tunney
73 letters · 18 words
Medium
George R.R. Martin
89 letters · 23 words
Hard
Harry Emerson Fosdick
77 letters · 18 words
Medium
Jeff Bezos
78 letters · 22 words
Medium
Jim Carrey
72 letters · 21 words
Medium
Jim Morrison
91 letters · 20 words
Hard
Jimmy Johnson
58 letters · 19 words
Medium
John Keats
88 letters · 20 words
Hard
Lou Holtz
50 letters · 15 words
Easy
Madonna
47 letters · 14 words
Easy
Malala Yousafzai
52 letters · 11 words
Medium
Malala Yousafzai
80 letters · 23 words
Medium
Marilyn Monroe
63 letters · 17 words
Medium
Nancy Astor
76 letters · 20 words
Medium
Norman Wisdom
56 letters · 16 words
Medium
Orison Swett Marden
49 letters · 14 words
Easy
Patrick Henry
64 letters · 17 words
Medium
Peter McWilliams
107 letters · 24 words
Hard
Rabindranath Tagore
54 letters · 13 words
Easy
Rainer Maria Rilke
98 letters · 23 words
Hard
Richard Branson
94 letters · 25 words
Hard
Rollo May
60 letters · 13 words
Medium
Rosa Parks
88 letters · 19 words
Medium
Rosalynn Carter
101 letters · 26 words
Hard
Theodore Hesburgh
89 letters · 20 words
Hard
Thucydides
119 letters · 27 words
Hard
Victor Hugo
127 letters · 28 words
Hard
Alice Walker
65 letters · 16 words
Medium
Aung San Suu Kyi
63 letters · 15 words
Medium
Ernest Hemingway
66 letters · 13 words
Medium
Harper Lee
60 letters · 13 words
Medium
Lucille Ball
60 letters · 14 words
Easy
Malcolm X
66 letters · 18 words
Medium
Ronald Reagan
93 letters · 23 words
Hard
Stephen Hawking
94 letters · 20 words
Hard
Sylvia Plath
73 letters · 21 words
Medium
William Faulkner
67 letters · 16 words
Medium
Helen Keller
52 letters · 11 words
Medium
Albert Camus
71 letters · 16 words
Medium
George Orwell
58 letters · 13 words
Medium
Henry Ward Beecher
83 letters · 21 words
Medium
Napoleon Bonaparte
52 letters · 13 words
Medium
Rainer Maria Rilke
90 letters · 21 words
Hard
Carrie Fisher
73 letters · 16 words
Medium
Coco Chanel
82 letters · 18 words
Medium
James A. Garfield
71 letters · 17 words
Medium
John Quincy Adams
79 letters · 20 words
Medium
Rainer Maria Rilke
80 letters · 18 words
Medium
Stephen Hawking
77 letters · 18 words
Medium
Walt Disney
77 letters · 19 words
Medium
Emile Zola
37 letters · 10 words
Easy
Frederick Douglass
36 letters · 9 words
Easy
James A. Garfield
30 letters · 10 words
Easy
Alice Walker
37 letters · 9 words
Easy
John Quincy Adams
26 letters · 8 words
Easy
Plato
33 letters · 9 words
Easy
Walt Disney
29 letters · 8 words
Easy

About These Puzzles

Each puzzle on WebCryptogram uses a unique letter substitution cipher — every letter in the alphabet is swapped for a different one, and that mapping stays consistent throughout the puzzle. To solve it, click on any cipher letter and type your guess. The puzzle tracks your time, counts hints and errors, and rates your performance when you finish.

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