"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams
"Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference." - Francis of Assisi
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led." - Thomas Jefferson
"My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still." - Maya Angelou
"In the flush of loves light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free." - Maya Angelou
"All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested." - Muhammad Ali
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can not practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." - Maya Angelou
"Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you have chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it." - Maya Angelou
"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free." - Swami Vivekananda
"My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people." - Abdul Kalam
"I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare." - Maya Angelou
"There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing." - Maya Angelou
"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily ? as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable." - Maya Angelou
"You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her." - Winston Churchill
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality." - C S Lewis
