Inspirations

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

- John Quincy Adams

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

- Vittorio, Conte Di Alfieri

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

- James Allen

We 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 Angelis

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

- Jean Anouilh

The 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.

- Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

- Aristotle

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

- Joanna Baillie

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

- Bruce Barton

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

- D A Battista

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

- Sir Cecil Beaton

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 no to be feared.

- David Ben-Gurion

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

- Dorothy Bernard

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

- Mary Mcleod Bethune

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

- Joshua 1:9, Bible

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.

- Ephesians 6:10, Bible

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

- Philippians 4:13, Bible

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.

- Psalms 18:29, Bible

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.

- 2 Chronicles 15:7, Bible

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them.

- 2 Kings 6:16, Bible

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

- Omar Bradley

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

- Dorothea Brande

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

- Les Brown

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

- Les Brown

There's no substitute for guts.

- Bear Bryant

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

- Mary Byrant

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

- Eileen Caddy

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

- Dale Carnegie

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

- Miguel De Cervantes

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

- Gilbert K Chesterton

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

- Gilbert K Chesterton

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

- Winston Churchill

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

- Winston Churchill

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

- Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

- Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

- Winston Churchill

A man of courage is also full of faith.

- Marcus T Cicero

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

- Marcus T Cicero

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

- James Freeman Clarke

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

- Robert Cody

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

- Joseph Conrad

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

- Baron Pierre De Coubertin

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

- Edward E Cummings

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

- Deuteronomy

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

- Richard M DeVos

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

You have to be tough.

- Mike Ditka

Be 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 Edison

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

- Albert Einstein

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

- Jules Ellinger

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

- Richard L Evans

I am more important than my problems.

- Jose Ferrer

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

- Gustave Flaubert

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

- B C Forbes

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

- James V Forrestal

Have the courage of your desire.

- George Robert Gissing

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

- Vincent Van Gogh

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

- Lord Greville

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

- Dag Hammarskjold

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

- Corra May Harris

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

- Oliver J Hart

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Courage is grace under pressure.

- Ernest Hemingway

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

- Horace

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

- Vernon Howard

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

- Victor Hugo

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

- Howard W Hunter

It 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 Ingersoll

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

One man with courage makes a majority.

- Andrew Jackson

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

- William James

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

- Andrew Jensen

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

- John Johnson

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

- Lyndon B Johnson

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

- Samuel Johnson

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

- Samuel Johnson

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

- John F Kennedy

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

- Robert F Kennedy

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

- Sister Elizabeth Kenny

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

- Basil King

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

- George Konrad

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

- Sheldon Kopp

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''

- Ann Landers

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

- Lao-Tzu

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

- Lao-Tzu

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

- C S Lewis

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

- Charles A Lindbergh

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

- Clare Boothe Luce

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

- Timothy Luce

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

- Martin Luther

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

- Douglas Macarthur

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

- Norman Macleod

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

- Maxwell Maltz

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

- Og Mandino

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

- Orison Swett Marden

Be larger than your task.

- Orison Swett Marden

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

- Rollo May

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

- Menander of Athens

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

- Thomas S Monson

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

- Lewis Morris

To boldly go where no one has gone before.

- Star Trek Movie

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

- Keshavan Nair

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

- Anais Nin

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

- Andre Norton

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

- Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave.

- Ovid

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

- Ovid

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

- John Petit-Senn

Courage in danger is half the battle.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

- Plutarch

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

- Proverb

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

- Ambrose Redmoon

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

- Jean Francois Regnard

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

- Jean Paul Richter

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

- Frances Rodman

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

- Theodore Roosevelt

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

- Judith Rossner

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

- Leo Rosten

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

- Robert H Schuller

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

- Robert H Schuller

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

- Seneca

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

- Seneca

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

- Seneca

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

- Seneca

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

- Seneca

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

- Seneca

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

- Lord Shaftesbury

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

- William Shakespeare

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

- William T Sherman

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

- Willie Shoemaker

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

- Ralph W Stockman

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

- W Clement Stone

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

- W Clement Stone

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

- Alice Mackenzie Swaim

No one reaches a high position without daring.

- Publilius Syrus

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

- Bayard Taylor

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

- St. Teresa of Avila

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

- Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

- Frank Tyger

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

- Source Unknown

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

- Source Unknown

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

- Source Unknown

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

- Source Unknown

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

- Source Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

- Source Unknown

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

- Source Unknown

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

- Source Unknown

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

- Source Unknown

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

- Source Unknown

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

- Source Unknown

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

- Source Unknown

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

- Source Unknown

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

- Denis Waitley

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ''crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.

- Thomas J Watson

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

- Ben Weininger

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

- Alfred North Whitehead

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

- Earl Wilson

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

- James A Worsham

It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.

- Owen D Young

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Get Inspired for Virtue 2: Courage and Emotional Strengths

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

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

We 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.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

The 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.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

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 no to be feared.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

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

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

There's no substitute for guts.

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

You have to be tough.

Be 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!

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

I am more important than my problems.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Have the courage of your desire.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.