"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."

"I have the courage of my convictions."

"Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything."

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."

"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."

"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."

"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."

"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."

"Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing."

"If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage"

"No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo"

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

"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it."

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."

"Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated."

Theater has always been much more fun. You get a laugh, and it's really encouraging.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

“Courage, dear heart.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.