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

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

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

The 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.

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

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Wherever 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.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

You 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.‘

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Adventures are to the adventurous.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

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

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Boldness be my friend.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

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

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

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

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.

From caring comes courage.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

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

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

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.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.