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 AngelouEach 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. LewisDespair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas FullerWhen 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 CoelhoThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareYour 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 MadisonCourage 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. PattonNo 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 SenecaThe 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 RooseveltThere is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage and it says 'Yes I can '... Yes we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so.
Maya AngelouCourage 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 AngelouWithout a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause.
HomerI learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson MandelaCreativity 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 ChurchillI 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 is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA 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 ReaganThe 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 FranklinYou 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 MorissetteThe 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 BoveeKeep 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.
AristotleDanger 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.
VoltaireYou 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 AngelouIt 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 ColtonA hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt 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 SenecaWhatever 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 EmersonOnly 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 WinfreyAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. TrumanPhysical 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 ColtonSelfless 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 GrahamWe are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Mignon McLaughlinBoldness be my friend.
William ShakespeareWithout 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 SenecaMy great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya AngelouLet us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma GandhiHe 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 PaineCourage 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 PaineMy 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 KalamI 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 ArmstrongCourage is the greatest of all virtues because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel JohnsonSee in everyone the Lord Himself moving in that form. Do not talk evil of others, see only good in them. Welcome every chance to help others to console others and to encourage others along the spiritual path.
Sai BabaWithout courage all virtues lose their meaning.
Winston ChurchillIt 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 ObamaOriginal Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage, simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao TzuThere can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett MardenI've been through it all baby, I'm mother courage.
Elizabeth TaylorToday we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility courage compassion and character.
George W. BushI have always been one to encourage perseverance.
Christina AguileraJust remaining quietly in the presence of God listening to Him being attentive to Him requires a lot of courage and know-how.
Thomas MertonSo we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.
Michelle ObamaIt Takes Courage To Do What You Want
Joseph CampbellThe most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco ChanelClime of the unforgotten brave! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave, Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave!
Lord ByronCourage is a kind of salvation.
PlatoEdison failed 10 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon HillCourage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues for upon it all others depend.
Winston ChurchillGod rewards according to the manner in which He is conceived or approached He grants you consolation and courage Once you have cleansed yourself by tears.
Sai BabaListen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis WaitleyEvery man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard ShawIf human beings had genuine courage they'd wear their costumes every day of the year not just on Halloween.
Doug CouplandThere's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less and because numbness encourages laziness you do fewer things good or bad and the world's probably a better place for it.
Doug CouplandIn fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
Lady GagaSuccess is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett MardenI don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.
Marilyn MansonCourage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
OvidA man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard ShawThe first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue, courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon BonaparteReal nobility is based on scorn courage and profound indifference.
Albert CamusMost 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 CarlyleWho could refrain that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make love known?
William ShakespeareIn the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph StalinMistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce LeeHe's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard ShawI have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism more humanness more compassion more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Hubert H. HumphreyHave the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe 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 CampbellAs he was valiant I honour him. But as he was ambitious I slew him.
William ShakespearePermanence 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 CarlyleIf you lift the hand to serve to help to console to encourage another man you are lifting it for God because in every man is God.
Sai BabaFrom caring comes courage.
Lao TzuIn 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 TutuWhen we all walked in you could feel their spirits being uplifted like they felt very encouraged and happy that we were there. It was just real cool to see that. To be able to go back (to New Orleans) play a game there and be able to uplift them again that's special.
Kobe BryantLeaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged not coerced to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
Nelson MandelaCourage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TolkienThere are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MoliereNo man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive create or produce but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves their perceptions and emotions and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel AdamsLeaders 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. GardnerIt requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon BonaparteHappy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
OvidExcellence encourages one about life generally, it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George EliotCourage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy GrahamCourage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlinWe 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 IngersollMany a man will have the courage to die gallantly but will not have the courage to say or even to think that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand RussellWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van GoghDevotional 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 BabaCourage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner
Joseph AddisonOne man with courage is a majority.
Thomas JeffersonOne ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston ChurchillThe courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. KennedyYou will never do anything worthwhile in this world without courage
James AllenCourage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John WayneIn strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
VirgilGenerosity pleasing address courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired but are inbred qualities.
ChanakyaHeroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Ronald ReaganThe strangest most generous and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de MontaigneWhy should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler YeatsThere is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe more wit the less courage.
Thomas FullerCourage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Winston ChurchillLet both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars conquer the deserts eradicate disease tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. KennedyWe need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara de AngelisThe only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard ShawPerfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe spirited horse which will try to win the race of its own accord will run even faster if encouraged.
OvidCourage is grace under pressure.
Ernest HemingwayDo 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 WildeThe only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlinCorrection does much but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCourtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore RooseveltWe are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts.
William HazlittThe greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green IngersollOne man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew JacksonCourage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Marlene DietrichWe gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Charles LambThose who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert CamusThere is something more - the spirit or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy and identity.
Maya AngelouValor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
Michel de MontaigneIn this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
VoltaireEfforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. KennedyYou 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 BabaCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston ChurchillI 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 NinAbove all we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald ReaganThere is in true beauty as in courage something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William CongreveAll you need is the plan the road map and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl NightingaleLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais NinA great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGive 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 StevensonHe who does not prevent a crime when he can encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca