William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Courage makes victory possible.

I am not one to chicken out.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.

Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

It feels good to show some courage.

Action conquers fear.

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

I want to be fearless.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

I used to not back down from a challenge.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.