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Quotations About Courage

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Mark Twain

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is being the only one who knows that you are afraid.

Anonymous

Keep you chin up and your knees down.

Anonymous

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

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

Anonymous

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

John Petit-Senn

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

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

Owen D. Young

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

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

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

E. F. Schumacher

"Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury."

Author Unknown

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