Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! Thomas A. Edison
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent Van Gogh
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. Pope John Paul II
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Benjamin Franklin
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Maya Angelou
From caring comes courage. Lao Tzu
One man with courage is a majority. Thomas Jefferson
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Courage is found in unlikely places. J. R. R. Tolkien
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. Saint Teresa of Avila
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is. Norman Schwarzkopf
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. Rollo May