It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength strength and courage to yield to.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Wisdom compassion and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Above all we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

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