Whatever you can do, or dream you can . . . begin it; boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one's advantage to be a little less than truthful, which makes one courageous when faced with great obstacles, which endows one with the firmness of wise self-discipline.
- Arthur S. Adams

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
- David Ben-Gurion

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

I thatched my roof when the sun was shining, and now I am not afraid of the storm.
- George F. Stivens

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
- Phillip Mann

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Our doubts are traitors and cause us to miss the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
- Sherwood Eddy

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart

The more people who believe in something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it because someone else is not sure of you.
- Stewart White

Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders one, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition in contempt.
- Samuel Goodrich

If you have a great ambition take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it, but if the step is only a tiny one, don't worry if is the largest one now possible.
- Mildred McAfee

A great part of courage is having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be obtained.
- Marie Curie

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.
- Judith Rosner

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
- William Burnham

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anaïs Nin

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and just does what he is told will never be told to do bigger things.
- Charles M. Schwab

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
- C. C. Scott

I am the only one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward E. Hale

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
- Marie Antoinette

Every tomorrow has two handles; we can take hold by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not to allow them to increase unacknowledged.
- Edward W. Ziegler

A crowd of troubles passed him by
As he with courage waited;
He said, "Where do you troubles fly
When you are thus belated?"
"We go," they say, "to those who mope,
Who look on life dejected,
Who meekly say 'good bye' to hope,
We go where we're expected."
- Francis J. Allison

To tremble before anticipated evils, is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
- John Lancaster Spalding

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
- Winston S. Churchill

The courage of the tiger is one, and of the horse another.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial.
- Samuel Smiles

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
- Henry David Thoreau

Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business, yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
- Pliny

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
- Helen Keller

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous times would have lain dormant.
- Horace

Choose always the way that seems best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
- Pythagoras

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
- Dorothy Thompson

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
- Thomas Carlyle

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly start remedying them—every day begin the task anew.
- St. Francis de Sales

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of difficulties.
- Reginald B. Mansell

To grow and know what one is growing towards—that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.
- James Baillie

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
- George Bernard Shaw

The person who knows no guilt knows no fear.
- Philip Massinger

For truth and duty it is ever the fitting time; whoever waits until circumstances completely favor an undertaking will never accomplish anything.
- Martin Luther King

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly and it pricks you; grasp it boldly and its spine crumbles.
- William S. Halsey

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything is to gain.
- Diane de Poitiers

Hope awakens courage. The person who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.
- Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. The way in which power works is a mystery.
- Albert Schweitzer

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
- Baruch Spinoza

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

It takes vision and courage to create—it takes faith and courage to prove.
- Owen D. Young

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlastingly at it are the requisites for success.
- Alonzo Newton Benn

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
- Elizabeth Kenny

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.
- Ralph W. Sockman