Benjamin Franklin: "How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

Billy Graham: "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

Bruce Lee: "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

Catherine the Great: "I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster."

Charles Lindbergh: "Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?"

Charlie Chaplin: "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

Chester W Nimitz: "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

Christopher Morley: "The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

Confucius: "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."

Dale Carnegie: "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Daniel J Boorstin: "The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

David Ben-Gurion: "Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

David Letterman: "There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior."

Dean Koontz: "Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool."

Earl Nightingale: "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

Eleanor Roosevelt: "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."

EM Forster: "Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."

Erich Fromm: "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

Erma Bombeck: "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

EW Hornung: "Money lost, little lost. Honour lost, much lost. Pluck lost, all lost."

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

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

Gilbert K Chesterton: "The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."