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.
Maya AngelouLet the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Benjamin DisraeliJust as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da VinciThe 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. KennedyMe not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.
The WeekndIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark TwainIt takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. RowlingCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark TwainFar better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore RooseveltYou 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 believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
Mahatma GandhiEvery man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLive as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDo the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale CarnegieWherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMany will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Che GuevaraBe brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo CoelhoFaced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
ConfuciusCourage is knowing what not to fear.
PlatoHe is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
SocratesIf you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
Kobe BryantI don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.
Alice MunroWomen have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice WalkerI’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.
Dwayne JohnsonNever be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten BoomCourage 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 AngelouI’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George EliotHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence NightingaleI have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
George Bernard ShawAbility hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Golda MeirBattle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. PattonAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinIn fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘
Lady GagaThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.
James BaldwinI think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Maya AngelouI’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.
Taylor SwiftBravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace ThackerayThe bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
Terry PratchettAs much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.
J. ColeWhen we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston ChurchillWhat kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston ChurchillQuestion with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas JeffersonThe approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston ChurchillA lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.
Robert KiyosakiI know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che GuevaraFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul SartreHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas CarlyleIf we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray BradburyThere’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
Maya AngelouGreat 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. BushI feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.
DrakeAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. TrumanThe difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.
Brene BrownVirtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William ShakespeareYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleWe must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
Maya Angelou