The stories of past courage… can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton
Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face … we must do that which we think we cannot.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing
In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Anonymous
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
You can’t test courage cautiously.
Anne Dillard
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson