"Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?" Robert Coles

"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence." Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." Mark Twain

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." J.K. Rowling

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." Abraham Lincoln

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying...I will try again tomorrow." Mary Anne Radmacher

"Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see." William Newton Clark

"If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse can happen the rest of the day." Unknown

"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." Alice M. Swaim

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott

"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose" Tom Krause

"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

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen

"Audacity augments courage; hesitation enhances fear." Nigerian Proverb

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing” Henry Miller

“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.” Lady Bird Johnson

“To look at something as though you had never seen it before requires courage.” Matisse

“Life only demands the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible—not to have run away.” Dag Hammerskjöld

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.” Robert Anthony, American psychologist, author

“Have the courage to do things you are not an expert at, try things that you are totally unsure about, have the courage to stick with it once you start and learn from every step that you take until your particular goal is reached. Even if your goal is never reached, it is a learning process that will enhance your life.” Walter Payton (1954-1999)

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.” Earl Wilson

“One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.” James A. Worsham

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” Helen Keller

“If people bring so much courage to the world, the world has to kill them to break them. Sometimes it kills them. The world breaks everyone. Afterwards many are strong at the broken places, but those it will break it kills. It kills the very good, the very brave, the very gentle, impartially. If you are none of these, you can be sure it will kill you too. But there will be no special hurry.” Ernest Hemingway