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| Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing. |
| Ashleigh Brilliant |
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| The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows |
| Samuel Butler |
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| The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. |
| Thomas Alva Edison |
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| There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete. |
| Helen Keller |
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| To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only. |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so. |
| Aristotle |
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| Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating. |
| William Shakespeare |
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| Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. |
| Ayn Rand |
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