Courage Quotes

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough." "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it." "I do everything to make the fight come out my way, but if I’m defeated I have to get up and come back again, no matter how humiliating the loss." "The thing that matters is how you lose. I’m not crying. My friends should not cry." "You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!" "Just bring it!" "If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner." "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things." "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." "Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage." "No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause." "The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty." "We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done." "Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say yes” to life?"