Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

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

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.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Boldness be my friend.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

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.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Bravery is the engine of change.

Creativity takes courage.

It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Courage is grace under pressure.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I have the courage of my convictions.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Have the courage of your desire.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

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

You can't test courage cautiously.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.