Quotes about courage

"Courage is grace under pressure."

Hemingway, Ernest on courage
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"Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter."

Hill, Aaron on courage   

"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."

Homer on courage   

"Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts."

Horace on courage   

"The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime."

Horace on courage   

"Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it."

Howard, Vernon on courage   

"You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren."

Hudson, William Henry on courage   

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Hugo, Victor on courage
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"There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes."

Hugo, Victor on courage   

"Courage is acting in spite of fear."

Hunter, Howard W. on courage
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on courage
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"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on courage   

"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on courage   

"One man with courage makes a majority."

Jackson, Andrew on courage
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"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger."

Jackson, Andrew on courage
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"Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it..."

James, William on courage   

"The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else."

Jensen, Andrew on courage
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"Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone."

Joel, Billy on courage
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"I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die."

Johnson, John on courage   

"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on courage   

"Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing."

Johnson, Samuel on courage   

"He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions."

Johnson, Samuel on courage   

"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice."

Johnson, Samuel on courage   

"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring."

Karr, Alphonse on courage   

"For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived."

Kennedy, John F. on courage   

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

Kennedy, John F. on courage   

"Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence."

Kennedy, Robert F. on courage
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"It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life."

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth on courage
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"It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair."

Kierkegaard, Søren on courage   

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on courage
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"Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid."

King, Basil on courage
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"You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps."

Konrad, George on courage   

"All of the significant battles are waged within the self."

Kopp, Sheldon on courage
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"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on courage   

"True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on courage   

"We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on courage   

"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

Landers, Ann on courage
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"Because of a great love, one is courageous."

Lao-Tzu on courage   

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Lee, Harper on courage
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