Famous Quotes

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Epicurus on Courage

More quotes about Courage

• "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

  Steve Jobs on Courage

• "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.'"

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Courage

• "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

  Nelson Mandela on Courage

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

  Winston Churchill on Courage

• "There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

  Ronald Reagan on Courage

More quotes by Epicurus

• "The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

• "It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."

• "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."

• "It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble."

• "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."