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