Courage

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing”

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful”

“Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation can never effect a reform”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once”

“Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway”

“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases”

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat”

“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble”

“He has half the deed done who has made a beginning”

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”

“Houston, we've had a problem”

“How Could I Feel Like a Hero When Only Five Men in My Platoon of 45 Survived?”

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship”

“I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived”

“I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”

“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine”

“I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world”

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man”

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it”

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing”

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others”

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am”

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours”

“If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”

“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance”

“It is hard to be brave when you're only a Very Small Animal”

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better”

“It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll”

“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud, for big powerful America”

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”

“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion”

“No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere”

“No matter what, people are going to like you or not like you. So be authentic, and let them like you or not for who you actually are”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt”

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage”

“Please, sir, I want some more”

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will”

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear”

“Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future”

“Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us”

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most”

“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

“The best way out is always through”

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat”

“The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure”

“These are the times that try men's souls”

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by”

“Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage”

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us”

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depths of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good”

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”

“We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy”

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”

“Well-behaved women seldom make history”

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle”

“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them”

“Without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face”

“You just can't beat the person who never gives up”

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated”

“You're gonna need a bigger boat”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life”