Quotes About Courage

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered.

If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace.

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.