It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Robert Peel

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Zora Neale Hurston

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
Tadao Ando

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
Tadao Ando

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara de Angelis

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

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

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Henry Van Dyke