The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

- Jim Hightower

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

- Harper Lee

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

- Saint Teresa of Avila

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.

- E. F. Schumacher

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is found in unlikely places.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

- Samuel Johnson

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

- Benjamin Disraeli

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

- George S. Patton

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm

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

Courage is a kind of salvation.

- Plato

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

- John Wooden

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

- Billy Graham

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Coco Chanel

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

- Albert Camus

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

- Charlie Chaplin

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

- Harry S. Truman