Inspirational Quotes

 On Courage

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
-Johann Friedrich Von Schiller-

The choice to live our passion is not dangerous, it is much worse, it is unknown.
But what is known can never be new or creative. If we die in our passion, at least
we have lived, if we live in the known we have already died.
-Steven Harrison-

Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
-James Bryant Conant-

You can't test courage cautiously.
-Annie Dillard-

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

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

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anais Nin-

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-Clare Booth Luce-

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own.
A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
-Mickey Mantle-

The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.
-Thucydides-

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck,
he surely meant us to stick it out.
-Arthur Koestler-

A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for.
-John A. Shedd-

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.
-Keshavan Nair-

Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
-Mark Twain-

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.
So, what the hell, leap.
-Cynthia Heimel-

Fortune favors the bold.
-Virgil-

One man with courage is majority.
-Andrew Jackson-

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
-Frank Scully-

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

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
-Anonymous-

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
-John Wayne-

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-Winston Churchill-

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
-Napoleon-