Quotes about courage

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

Disney, Walt on courage
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"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

Disraeli, Benjamin on courage   

"You have to be tough."

Ditka, Mike on courage   

"Courage follows action."

Douglas, Mack R. on courage   

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear."

Earhart, Amelia on courage   

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

Eco, Umberto on courage
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"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"

Edison, Thomas A. on courage   

"To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization."

Einstein, Albert on courage   

"The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth."

Einstein, Albert on courage
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"Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

Ellinger, Jules on courage   

"Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage
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"Courage consists in equality to the problem before us."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage   

"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage   

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage   

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage
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"What a new face courage puts on everything!"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage   

"Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage   

"Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity."

Evans, Richard L. on courage   

"I am more important than my problems."

Ferrer, Jose on courage
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"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

Flaubert, Gustave on courage   

"What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you."

Forbes, B. C. on courage   

"Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well."

Forrestal, James V. on courage   

"The more wit the less courage."

Fuller, Thomas on courage   

"The brave love mercy, and delight to save."

Gay, John on courage   

"A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage."

Gilder, Richard Watson on courage   

"No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away."

Gilmore, David on courage   

"For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously."

Gissing, George Robert on courage   

"Have the courage of your desire."

Gissing, George Robert on courage   

"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage   

"Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

Gogh, Vincent Van on courage
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"He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all."

Graham, James on courage   

"Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have."

Greville, Lord on courage   

"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."

Hammarskjold, Dag on courage   

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."

Harris, Corra May on courage   

"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."

Hart, Oliver J. on courage
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"All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on courage   

"Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it."

Hazlitt, William on courage   

"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."

Hazlitt, William on courage