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 IngersollI 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 GideSince 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.
ConfuciusDespair 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 CoelhoWe could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen KellerIf 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 JobsCourage 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 TzuThere 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 MardenLive as brave men, and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe 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 PartonThe approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaCourage 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 AngelouYou 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 RooseveltI 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 AngelouIt's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark TwainThe man of wisdom has no perplexity, the man of humanity has no worry, the man of courage has no fear.
ConfuciusCourage 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 StevensonA timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean PaulHistory, 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 ColtonAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen KellerSometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou 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. TrumanNeither 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 PoeThe 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 AngelouThe real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas PaineCourage is fire and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin DisraeliMy 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 KalamThe weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William BlakeUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. PattonAnd 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 ObamaInaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale CarnegieMost of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale CarnegieSimulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage, simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao TzuToday we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility courage compassion and character.
George W. BushIt Takes Courage To Do What You Want
Joseph CampbellThe 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'RourkeCourage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
OvidLife is to be entered upon with courage.
Alexis de TocquevilleYou will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin DisraeliA man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard ShawThe courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.
Thomas CarlyleHe's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard ShawThe 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 CampbellPeople grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor RooseveltCourage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. PattonPermanence 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 TutuLeaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged not coerced to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
Nelson MandelaIt takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma BombeckCourageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.
Nelson MandelaGreat tragedy has come to us and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
George W. BushLeaders 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. GardnerExcellence encourages one about life generally, it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George EliotWhat 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 BabaWe must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Because of a great love one is courageous.
Lao TzuIn spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil which I have forsaken in my great discouragement and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van GoghThe 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. KennedyPeace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond TutuDon't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings sadness and drama. With just this one agreement you can completely transform your life.
Miguel Angel RuizTo 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 ColtonCourage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PlutarchOriginal Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell
The 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 ShawDo 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 WildeThere 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 AngelouYou 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 BabaThere is in true beauty as in courage something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve