I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

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

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain to live with it to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

I have the responsibility of over four million people and I am in a position to do good to be able to bring about a new life for my people and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden but it needs to be done and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

The more wit the less courage.

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.

The strangest most generous and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise I say ignore the bastard.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.

This soul or life within us by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Political courage is not political suicide.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man.

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

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness one of which is a lack the other an excess of courage.

Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep deep deep in there. Every step of the way.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.