Courage Quotes
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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
William Faulkner
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The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
Arthur Helps
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Courage is knowing what to fear.
Plato
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I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
George Michael
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Courage is the gift of character.
Euripides
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If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."
Charles Alexander Eastman
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Erica Jong
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We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
Richard L. Evans
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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.
Simon Sinek
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Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
Bill Crawford
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
Stephen Covey
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There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve
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Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
William Shakespeare
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When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Courage comes in different forms. There's strength-that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
Nora Roberts
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Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.
Blaine Hogan
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It is indeed possible for those who have the will, courage and faith.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
Herbert Spencer
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Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.
Paul Dirac
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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
Jeff Goodell
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
Carson McCullers
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It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.
Ellis Paul Torrance