Courage

The power of one man or woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Jack Kemp

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Viscott

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Pericles

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

Vincent van Gogh

Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Train your head and hands to do, your head and heart to dare.

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. 1898

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

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 not to be feared.

David Ben Gurion

Life is either always a tight-rope or a feather bed. Give me the tight-rope.

Edith Wharton

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Margaret Chase Smith