America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
My 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.
I, 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.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Above 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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
Success 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.
Do 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.
The 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.