All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt DisneySuccess is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston ChurchillCourage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Green IngersollHave enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time.
Maya AngelouI count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
AristotleIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark TwainMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre GideEach time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage and confidence in the doing.
Theodore RooseveltSince it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
C. S. LewisThe beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
AristotleCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark TwainBeing deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao TzuTo see what is right and not do it is want of courage or of principle.
ConfuciusWe can't be brave without fear.
Muhammad AliDespair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas FullerHe who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad AliWhen you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Paulo CoelhoThere is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Jane AustenWe could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen KellerPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Herman HesseThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareJust as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da VinciIf you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
Paulo CoelhoYour time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve JobsAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most, had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James MadisonThere is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander HamiltonCourage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
PlutarchThe skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun TzuCourage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon BonaparteThere can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett MardenIf we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. PattonLive as brave men, and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNo one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Julius CaesarThe pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaBe brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo CoelhoYou'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Dolly PartonIt takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. RowlingEvery human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen HayesThe approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore RooseveltCourage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya AngelouEven cowards can endure hardship, only the brave can endure suspense.
Mignon McLaughlinYou gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor RooseveltElections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas SowellDiscourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham LincolnWithout a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause.
HomerCreativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich FrommDanger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston ChurchillSince new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
George Washington CarverI have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it instead of carrying it.
Erma BombeckCourage allows the successful woman to fail, and learn powerful lessons from the failure, so that in the end she didn't fail at all.
Maya AngelouLet us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath TagoreCourage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer, because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo CoelhoWhen the blandishments of life are gone, the coward creeps to death - the brave lives on.
Marcus AureliusA coward is incapable of exhibiting love, it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma GandhiThere are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald ReaganIt's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark TwainThe brave man inattentive to his duty is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew JacksonHow few there are who have courage enough to own their faults or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin FranklinHe is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
SocratesYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleCourage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip, or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
Alanis MorissetteIf we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe man of wisdom has no perplexity, the man of humanity has no worry, the man of courage has no fear.
ConfuciusThe principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Thomas AquinasCourage enlarges cowardice, diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell BoveeAll of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma BombeckBoldness is a child of ignorance
Francis BaconKeep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis StevensonWhen their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away, but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are and seem terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.
AristotleThe world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthurA timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean PaulDanger gleams, like sunshine, to a brave man's eyes.
EuripidesIt is vain for the coward to flee, death follows close behind, it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
VoltaireHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya AngelouYou can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time you have to have courage.
Maya AngelouThe way of the superior person is threefold, virtuous they are free from anxieties, wise they are free from perplexities, and bold they are free from fear.
ConfuciusIt is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb ColtonHave 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.
Victor HugoA hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen KellerIt is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
HoraceSometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart MillMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
AristotleWhatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCourage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.
Jean PaulOnly selfless service can encourage a person to reach the higher state of humanity.
Sai BabaIf you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlinCourage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LewisYou get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah WinfreyThe great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.
Oprah WinfreyAll through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
Muhammad AliAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. TrumanThe two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
Paulo CoelhoNeither a wise man, nor a brave man, lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. EisenhowerFaced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
ConfuciusPhysical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way, and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another.
Charles Caleb ColtonThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeVirtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
William ShakespeareNine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole FranceSelfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.
Sai BabaBelievers look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
Billy GrahamThe only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Woodrow WilsonBoldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences; whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Francis BaconWisdom, compassion and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
ConfuciusMark what a generosity and courage a dog will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man who, to him, is instead of a God
Francis BaconWithout courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest.
Maya AngelouThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLet us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma GandhiQuite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money, or killed by their courage.
AristotleHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel JohnsonThe real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas PainePretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun TzuThe courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
Pam BrownIs he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Charles LindberghCourage is fire and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin DisraeliVirtues are acquired through endeavor Which rests wholly upon yourself. So to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas PaineReligion, in its humility, restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George SantayanaNearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. EdisonMy message especially to young people is to have courage to think differently courage to invent to travel the unexplored path courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Abdul KalamMen make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. TrumanI have had a wonderful life. I have never regretted what I did. I regret things I didn't do. All my life I've done things at a moment's notice. Those are the things I remember.
Ingrid BergmanCourage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillThe weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William BlakeUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. PattonCourage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston ChurchillMost folks want to believe in Armstrong in the credibility of his courage in the veracity of his inspiration in the purity of his Tour de France titles. Most want to believe but does everyone dare? We've been suckers for hearts-and-flowers icons before.
Lance ArmstrongIt is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Robert Green IngersollAnd I love that even in the toughest moments when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom and courage and grace.
Michelle ObamaMost of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale CarnegiePolitical courage is not political suicide.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSimulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage, simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao TzuThe inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals good bad and otherwise.
P. J. O'RourkeClime of the unforgotten brave! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave, Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave!
Lord ByronCourage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
OvidMost of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis StevensonThe courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.
Thomas CarlyleThe courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path and where we had thought to find abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.
Joseph CampbellPermanence perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s discouragement s and impossibilities: It is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas CarlyleIn South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
Desmond TutuIt takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma BombeckLeaders come in many forms with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence some in judgment some in courage.
John W. GardnerGod 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.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma GandhiWe need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.
Robert Green IngersollDevotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.
Sai BabaBe courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. EdisonNo matter what you think about the Iraq war there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Hillary ClintonThere's something about Marxism that brings out warts, the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O'RourkeTo dare to live alone is the rarest courage, since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb ColtonOriginal Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
Oscar WildeYou have no reason to feel proud when you are able to help another for your skill or wealth or strength or courage or official position that gave you the chance to serve was the gift of God whether you recognize it or not. You are only offering this God's gift to another God's gift namely the poor the illiterate the weak the diseased the grieving the broken-hearted who seek your help.
Sai BabaGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold NiebuhrDeath has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
Donald RumsfeldAs soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame they kill, or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone WeilI with a deeper instinct choose a man who compels my strength who makes enormous demands on me who does not doubt my courage or my toughness who does not believe me naive or innocent who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais NinEccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded, and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and courage which it contained.
John Stuart MillDevelop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale CarnegieIf I had permitted my failures or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin CoolidgeGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind spare to us our friends soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson