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

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de Montaigne

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Vittorio Alfieri

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
Vittorio Alfieri

Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
Elizabeth Taylor

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Euripides

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Noel Coward

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand Russell