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Courage Quotes

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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

– John Lancaster Spalding

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

– Henry David Thoreau

Whatever you can do, or dream you can . . . begin it; boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

– Helen Keller

We are like tea bags. We don’t know our own strength until we are in hot water.

– Bruce Laingen

Tolerance is the virtue of a man with no convictions.

– G.K. Chesterton

To tremble before anticipated evils, is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To grow and know what one is growing towards – that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.

– James Baillie

To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial.

– Samuel Smiles

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

– Helen Keller

There is only one kind of courage: resisting the condemnation of a mode of thought.

– Antoine de St. Exupery

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

– Baruch Spinoza

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

– Ralph W. Sockman

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

– Ralph W. Sockman

The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.

– Amelia Earhart

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore … Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over these things that seem impossible … It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors … to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.

– Ferdinand Magellan

The person who knows no guilt knows no fear.

– Philip Massinger

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

– Mignon McLaughlin

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

– George Bernard Shaw

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.

– William Burnham

The more people who believe in something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who’s right often has to stand alone.

– Soren Kierkegaard

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and just does what he is told will never be told to do bigger things.

– Charles M. Schwab

The courage of the tiger is one, and of the horse another.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

– Thomas Carlyle

Our doubts are traitors and cause us to miss the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

– William Shakespeare

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

– Marie Curie

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. The way in which power works is a mystery.

– Albert Schweitzer

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders one, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition in contempt.

– Samuel Goodrich

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