Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

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

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.