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Courage Quotes

81 Total

Many say I am just one to try. I say I am just one less to quit.

– Diego Marchi

Making war is the coward’s way out. Making friends is much more difficult.

– Grant M. Bright

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be obtained.

– Marie Curie

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

– Elizabeth Kenny

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

– Owen D. Young

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

– Judith Rosner

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

– Phillip Mann

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

– Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not to allow them to increase unacknowledged.

– Edward W. Ziegler

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

– Albert Camus

If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.

– Bhagavad-Gita

If you have a great ambition take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it, but if the step is only a tiny one, don’t worry if is the largest one now possible.

– Mildred McAfee

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

– Louis D. Brandeis

If things seem really under control, you’re not going fast enough.

– Mario Andretti

I thatched my roof when the sun was shining, and now I am not afraid of the storm.

– George F. Stivens

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

– William Faulkner

I am the only one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

– Edward E. Hale

Hope awakens courage. The person who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

– Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly start remedying them – every day begin the task anew.

– St. Francis de Sales

Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one’s advantage to be a little less than truthful, which makes one courageous when faced with great obstacles, which endows one with the firmness of wise self-discipline.

– Arthur S. Adams

For truth and duty it is ever the fitting time; whoever waits until circumstances completely favor an undertaking will never accomplish anything.

– Jr., Martin Luther King

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

– Michael Pritchard

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

– Sherwood Eddy

Every tomorrow has two handles; we can take hold by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.

– Henry Ward Beecher

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it because someone else is not sure of you.

– Stewart White

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

– Winston Churchill

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

– Amelia Earhart

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlastingly at it are the requisites for success.

– Alonzo Newton Benn

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