Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Source: Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Raleigh, NC, Coliseum, September 17, 1960.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living (1960). Complete Sentence: 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.” …You must do the Read More…

Don’t work for my happiness… show me your achievement and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine.

Source: The Fountainhead (1943) is a novel by Ayn Rand, Part IV ( Howard Roark ). Complete Sentence: He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky’s Read More…

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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Courage will follow when faith takes the lead.

Courage the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Source: As quoted in USA Today (5 March 1988) Variant: Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Source: Sir Winston Churchill, a conference in Washington DC.