1. God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

- Chester W. Nimitz

2. A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.

- William G.T. Shedd

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

4. All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

- Earl Nightingale

5. If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

- Harry Hoover

6. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

- Robert F. Kennedy

7. Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

8. Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

- C.S. Lewis

9. Be larger than your task.

- Orison Swett Marden

10. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

11. It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

- Les Brown

12. Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

- Albert Camus

13. The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

- Thucydides

14. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

- Helen Keller

15. I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

- Venus Williams

16. Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

- Timothy Dalton

17. It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

- E. H. Harriman

18. Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.

- Amit Ray

19. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

- Neale Donald Walsch

20. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- André Gide

21. Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

- Thucydides

22. I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.

- Bear Grylls

23. It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we’re wrong is courage, not weakness.

- Roy T. Bennett

24. It’s the hottest fires that make the hardest steel.

- Kevin Yon, Born of Fire

25. Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.

- Emma Donoghue

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

- Hermann Hesse

27. Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

- Pope John Paul II

28. Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.’

- Brené Brown

29. In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.

- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

30. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

- George Sheehan

31. Bravery is the solution to regret.

- Robin S. Sharma

32. Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

- Orison Swett Marden

33. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

- Anne Frank

34. To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

- Picabo Street

35. Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

- Plutarch

36. Fortune favours the brave.

- Latin proverb

37. Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

- Winston Churchill

38. Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

- Václav Havel

39. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

- Dale Carnegie

40. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

- Douglas MacArthur

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

- Confucius

42. Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

- Chris Bradford

43. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

44. Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.

- Robert Fanney

45. Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

- Robertson Davies

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

- Giacamo Casanova

47. You can and you will. The difficulty of it, is why you must.

- Charles Rhoades, Sr., Billions

48. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm

49. Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

- Billy Graham

50. Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.

- Robert Thier

51. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

- Ronald Reagan

52. Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

- Astro Teller

53. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

- Theodore Roosevelt

54. It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it.

- Sue Hadfield

55. Freedom lies in being bold.

- Robert Frost

56. Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

- Brené Brown

57. It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- John Quincy Adams

59. Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

60. Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

- J. Willard Marriott

61. It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

- Reginald Rose

62. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

- Ellis Paul Torrance

64. Courage originally meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.’

- Brené Brown

65. Without fear there cannot be courage.

- Christopher Paolini

66. You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

- Oprah Winfrey

67. If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

- Veronica Rossi

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

- Lao Tzu

69. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

- Harry S. Truman

70. Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

- Madeleine L’Engle

71. He who moves not forward, goes backward.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

72. Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

73. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

- Steve Jobs

74. Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

76. Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

- Arthur Koestler

77. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

78. Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.

- Roy T. Bennett

79. The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

- Thomas Aquinas

80. Courage is the secret sauce that allows you to act despite your fears.

- Narayan Kamath

81. Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.

- Napoleon

82. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T.S. Eliot

83. One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

- Maya Angelou

84. Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

- Napoleon

85. Live out of your imagination, not your history.

- Stephen R. Covey

86. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’

- Eleanor Roosevelt

87. Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

- Shannon L. Adler

88. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

- George S. Patton Jr.

89. Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.

- Anita Roddick

90. What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

- Sheryl Sandberg

91. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

92. There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

- Susan Cain

93. Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.

- Adam Lindsay Gordon

94. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

- Erica Jong

95. To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

- Henri Matisse

96. Think of yourself as an explorer. You cannot find anything new if you are unwilling to leave the shore.

- Robert Greene

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

- Aristotle

98. Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.

- Malcolm Gladwell

99. Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.

- Tennessee Williams

100. Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

- Oscar Wilde

101. There’s plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

- Marilyn Vos Savant

102. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

- Nelson Mandela

103. One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one’s capacity.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

104. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

- G.K. Chesterton

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

- William T. Sherman

106. Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.

- Hildegard of Bingen

107. Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.

- Charles Swindoll

108. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

109. Courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar.

- Osho

110. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

- Erma Bombeck

111. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Coco Chanel

112. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

- Sydney Smith

113. Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

114. 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. God is awake.

- Victor Hugo

115. 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.

- Mark Twain

116. It’s when you run away that you’re most liable to stumble.

- Casey Robinson

117. With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

- Margaret Mitchell

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

- Muhammad Ali

119. Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

- Bethany Hamilton

120. Courage isn’t absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important.

- Stephen R. Covey

121. You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

- Thomas Merton

122. To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do – realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

- Peter McWilliams

123. When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’

- Tom Preston-Werner

124. It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.

- Anne Sexton

125. The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

- Paulo Coelho

126. If you’re willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you’ll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

- Kurt Warner

127. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

- Steve Jobs

128. Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.

- Bethany Hamilton

129. So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

- Christopher Reeve

130. Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

- Dale Carnegie

131. People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don’t EVER stop!

- Steve Maraboli

132. It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life.

- Paulo Coelho

133. My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

- Jenna Jameson

134. Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.

- Stephen Hawking

135. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

- Erma Bombeck

136. He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch

- Jean-Luc Godard

137. Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

- Arianna Huffington

138. The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

- Brian Tracy

139. If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

- Dr. Roopleen

140. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

141. All happiness depends on courage and work.

- Honoré de Balzac

142. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

- Douglas MacArthur

143. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

144. 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

145. 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

146. Trust the still, small voice that says, ‘this might work and I’ll try it.’

- Diane Mariechild

147. It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

- J. M. W. Turner

148. You can choose to let this thing bother you or let this be an adventure and welcome the challenge.

- Fred Rogers

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

150. It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

- Xiaolu Guo

151. Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

- Karl Von Clausewitz

152. Fight hard when you are down; die hard—determine at least to do—and you won’t die at all.

- James H. West

153. Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

154. Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

- Ronald Reagan

155. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

- Anaïs Nin

156. Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.

- C. JoyBell C.

157. Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.

- Brené Brown

158. Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

- Piers Anthony

159. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

- George S. Patton Jr.

160. Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

161. If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?

- Les Brown

162. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

- Suzy Kassem

163. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- T.S. Eliot

165. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

- Paulo Coelho

166. In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential.

- Suze Orman

167. Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

- Thomas Stephen Szasz

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

169. Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

- James Freeman Clarke

170. Optimism is the foundation of courage.

- Nicholas Murray Butler

171. A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

- Lao Tzu

172. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

173. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- John F. Kennedy

174. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

- Nelson Mandela

175. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

- Maya Angelou

176. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Charles F. Kettering

177. All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

- Earl Nightingale

178. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill

179. True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

- Alfred North Whitehead

180. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

181. Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.

- Lana del Rey

182. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

- Bruce Lee

183. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

- Ruth Gordon

184. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

- Nelson Mandela

185. The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

- Jim Hightower

186. You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

- William Faulkner

187. Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

188. Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

- Winston Churchill

189. Part of courage is simple consistency.

- Peggy Noonan

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

- Muhammad Ali

191. Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…

- Wilferd Peterson

192. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

- Seneca

193. With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

- Margaret Mitchell

194. I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

- Erica Jong

195. It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can’t do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

- Zoe Saldana

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

197. The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

198. I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

- Maya Angelou

199. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

- Ruth Gordon

200. Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

- Dale Carnegie

201. Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

- Zig Ziglar

202. Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be.

- David Goggins

203. Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.

- Cyrus the Great

204. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

- Brian Tracy

205. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

- Thomas Carlyle

206. Courage is found in unlikely places.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

207. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

- Benjamin Franklin

208. Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

209. Have the courage to act instead of react.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

210. It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

- Horace

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

- David Viscott

212. You can’t test courage cautiously.

- Annie Dillard

213. Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

- R.J. Palacio

214. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

- Mark Twain

215. The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.

- Stephen King

216. You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.

- Brene Brown

217. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie

218. Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

- Robin S. Sharma

219. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

220. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

- J.K. Rowling

221. You can’t catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

- Andy Gilbert

222. Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

- Mary Tyler Moore

223. Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mark Twain

225. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

- Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

226. 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

227. It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

- Marianne Williamson

228. Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

- Ann Landers

229. The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.

- Roy T. Bennett

230. Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

- Erica Jong

231. The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

- Charles M. Schwab

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

- Winston Churchill

233. There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior.

- David Letterman

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

- Benjamin Franklin

235. Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

- Chris Bradford

236. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.

- Joshua 1:9, NIV

237. Courage is grace under pressure.

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Benjamin Franklin

239. If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

- Seth Godin

240. Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

- E. M. Forster

241. ?Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Lao Tzu

243. If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.

- Thomas Jefferson

244. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Coco Chanel

245. Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

- Dorothy Bernard

246. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.

- Erica Jong

247. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

- Carrie Jones

248. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

249. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

250. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

- Jonas Salk

251. A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

- Lao Tzu

252. It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

- Elizabeth Kenny

253. Have courage to use your own reason!

- Immanuel Kant