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

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

- Socrates

From caring comes courage.

- Lao Tzu

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

- Alan Cohen

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

- Victor Hugo

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

- Confucius

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

- Benjamin Franklin

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

- William Shakespeare

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

- Dale Carnegie

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

- John F. Kennedy

One man with courage is a majority.

- Thomas Jefferson

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

- W. Clement Stone

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

- John Wayne

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

- Aristotle

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

- Muhammad Ali

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

- C. S. Lewis

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain