Courage Quotes
“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.” ~~ Aesop
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“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” ~~ Ralph W. Sockman
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.” ~~ Mark Twain
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“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.” ~~ Winston Churchill
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“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.” ~~ John Petit-Senn
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“The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.” ~~ Joanna Baillie
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“Courage is grace under pressure.” ~~ Ernest Hemingway
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“Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.” ~~ Samuel Johnson
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“Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.” ~~ Oliver J. Hart
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“Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.” ~~ Douglas MacArthur
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“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.” ~~ Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” ~~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.” ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” ~~ Thomas Paine
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“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.” ~~ Channing Pollock
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“What a new face courage puts on everything!” ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” ~~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.” ~~ Joseph Addison
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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ~~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“It takes vision and courage to create-it takes faith and courage to prove.” ~~ Owen D. Young
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“One man with courage makes a majority.” ~~ Andrew Jackson
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"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only today I happen to have a headache." ~~ Lewis Carroll
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“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.” ~~ G. K. Chesterton
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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” ~~ G. K. Chesterton
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“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.” ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” ~~ English Proverb
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“This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.” ~~ Euripides
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“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.” ~~ John F. Kennedy
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“Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.” ~~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.” ~~ Napoleon I
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“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.” ~~ Carl Sandburg
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“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ~~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” ~~ Mark Twain
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