Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7]

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

There's no substitute for guts.

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

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!

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

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

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

I am more important than my problems.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

The more wit the less courage.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Be larger than your task.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

To boldly go where no one has gone before.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

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

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

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

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.