courage

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the
most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the
greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest
efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately
apprehensive about tripping.

Francis de Sales

Because a person has failed once or twice or a dozen times,
you don't want to set that person down as a failure
till he or she's dead or loses their courage--and that's the same thing.

George Horace Lorimer

Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for one's own freedom,
but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks
in the structure of his building of oneself into a person
who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Rollo May

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents,
our country and children.  Courage comprises all things.

Plautus

You will never do anything in this world without courage.

James Lane Allen

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God grant me the courage not to give up
what I think is right,
even though I think it is hopeless.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Courage takes many forms.  There is physical courage, there is moral courage.
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.

Howard Cosell

There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence
in the meaning and significance of life.  Such courage is an underground river,
flowing far beneath the shifting events of one’s experience,
keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

Howard Thurman

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

The more you surrender to the fear of someone’s disapproval, the more
you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for
someone’s approval.  Within you is a void that should have been filled by
self-esteem.  When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead,
the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows
stronger.  The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own
judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.

Nathaniel Branden

One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself,
know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.

Sheila Murray Bethel

Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin