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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. "

Chester W. Nimitz

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" Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

" War is fear cloaked in courage. "

William Westmoreland

" 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. "

" Courage is the birthplace of confidence. "

" Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day. "

" In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends. "

" Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. "

" The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. "

" Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. "

" We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience. "

" War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying. "

" Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc. "

" Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. "

Winston Churchill

" There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. "

" Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse,' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change,' that's the motivating factor. "

Kathryn Minshew

" 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. "

" He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! "

" If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window. "

" I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much. "

Diane von Furstenberg

" It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. "

" Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with. "

Frank Crowninshield

" It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. "

" Ain't nobody ever had a jumpshot like mine, ain't nobody ever power moves like mine, ain't nobody ever tough defense like mine and ain't nobody ever had the courage to be a winner like me. "

" Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage. "

" You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. "

" I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. "

August Strindberg