Quotes about courage

"The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring."

Taylor, Bayard on courage   

"I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage."

Taylor, Elizabeth on courage
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"To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that."

Teresa of Avila, St. on courage
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"More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution."

Thomson, James on courage   

"There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are."

Trungpa, Chogyam on courage   

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

Twain, Mark on courage
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried."

Tyger, Frank on courage
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"A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage."

Unknown, Source on courage
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"A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?"

Unknown, Source on courage   

"If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites."

Unknown, Source on courage
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"Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!"

Unknown, Source on courage
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"Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"One who lacks courage to start has already finished"

Unknown, Source on courage   

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"Private bravery is often the price of personal victory."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]"

Bible on courage   

"In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken."

Valois, Margaret on courage   

"He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage."

Voltaire on courage   

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

Waitley, Denis on courage
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity."

Watson, Thomas J. on courage   

"We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives."

Weininger, Ben on courage   

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

Whitehead, Alfred North on courage   

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on courage   

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

Wilson, Earl on courage
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"I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something."

Worsham, James A. on courage   

"It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove."

Young, Owen D. on courage
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"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."

Zapata, Emiliano on courage
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