Courage Quotes

"As for courage and will — we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead."

- Andre Norton

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

- John Quincy Adams

"Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

- Jane Austen

"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured."

- B.K.S. Iyengar

"Travel is never a matter of money but of courage."

- Paulo Coelho

"I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley."

- Airplane!

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

- Dirty Dancing

"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is 'timing' it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way."

- Fulton J. Sheen

"You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them."

- Amy Tan

"Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t."

- Oskar Schindler

"Don’t ever, ever underestimate the will of a grandfather....We got here before you and they will be here after you."

- Martin Sheen as President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing

"Do not lose heart or despair- if you are true believers you have the upper hand-"

- Quran 3:139

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"I believe that inside every person who is bullied there is a strength and a tenacity to survive."

- Amy Gravino

"Do something every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The reason I success is because I’ve never been afraid to fail."

- David Beckham

"Your love makes me strong; your hate makes me unstoppable."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life."

- Bob Marley

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

- Albert Einstein

"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."

- Salman Rushdie

"Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America."

- John Lewis

"Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part."

- John Lewis

"FEAR has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run. Face Everything And Rise."

"Always say yes to new adventures."

"When in doubt, just travel."

"Don’t listen to what they say. Go and see."

"And when he reached with him [the age of] exertion, he said, “O my son, indeed I have seen in a dream that I [must] sacrifice you, so see what you think.” He said, “O my father, do as you are commanded. You will find me, if Allah wills, of the steadfast."

"And whoever is patient and forgives – indeed, that is of the matters [requiring] determination."