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 Angelou

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.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

- Carl Lewis

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Lao Tzu

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

- Saint Francis de Sales

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

- Dan Rather

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

- Thomas Szasz

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

- Hermann Hesse

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

- John Irving

Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

- Rollo May

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.

- Mary McLeod Bethune

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

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.

- Jr. Joseph Smith

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

- Giacomo Casanova

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

- Les Brown

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.

- Maxwell Maltz

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

- Paul Tillich

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.

- Sydney Smith

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

- Thucydides

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

- Loretta Young