Courage is nothing less that the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice,
while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its sorrows, is good;
that everything is meaningful, even if in a sense beyond our understanding;
and that there is always tomorow.

Dorothy Thompson

This is the art of courage:
To see things as they are and still believe
that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad,
but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Robert G. Ingersoll

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome diffiultites,
and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

William J.H. Boetcher

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Richard L. Evans

Anonymous

This is courage...
to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Euripedes

Plato

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence
by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face.
We must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Stuart Walker

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain,
but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

Rabbi Earl Grollman

James A. Michener

Courage is a quiteness, not martial music made
Born of facing up to life, even when afraid.

Emily Sargent Councilman

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

John-Roger and Peter McWilliams

James Thurber

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday.
You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Barbara De Angelis

Napoleon I

Mignon McLaughlin

Maori proverb

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

Anonymous

Somewhere in time the truth shines through 
And the spirit knows what it has to do 
Somewhere in you there's a power with no name 
It can rise to meet the moment and burn like a flame 

And you can be stronger than anything you know 
Hold on to what you see 
Don't let it go 

Steve Winwood
From the movie "Balto"

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

Alice M. Swaim

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage,
but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You never conquer a mountain.
Mountains can't be conquered;
you conquer yourself
your hopes, your fears.

Jim Whitaker

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

Victor Hugo

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone;
But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Rabindranath Tagore

Obstacles cannot crush me;
every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Fritz Kunkel

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Vincent van Gogh

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.

Amelia Earhart

Seneca

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.
A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures
—and that is the basis of all morality.

John F. Kennedy

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

Jerome P. Fleishman

Like the mighty phoenix, Once again I rise from the flames set to destroy me & take flight. I am Stronger Glorious Powerful Victorious.