Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – E. F. Schumacher
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. – Jim Hightower
The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. – Thucydides
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. – Les Brown
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. – Maxwell Maltz
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. – Joseph Smith, Jr.
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. – Giacomo Casanova
Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. – William Tecumseh Sherman
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. – John Irving
Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. – Rollo May
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. – Thomas Szasz
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. – Hermann Hesse
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. – Saint Francis de Sales
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. – Carl Lewis
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
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
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. – Bruce Lee
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. – Maya Angelou
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anais Nin
