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Quotes about Courage


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

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

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Owen D. Young

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

English Euripides

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoleon I

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Mark Twain

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

G. K. Chesterton

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

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

Owen D. Young

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Helen Blavatsky

The Impossible Dream To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear the unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go To write the unwritable wrong To be better far than you are To try when your arms are too weary The reach the unreachable star This is my quest, to follow that star No matter how hopeless, No matter how far To fight for the right Whithout question or pause To be willing to march into hell For a heavenly cause And I know if I'll only be true To this glorious quest That my heart will be peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world would be better for this That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star music by Leigh.

Joe Darion

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.

Anais Nin

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Channing Pollock

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Eddie Rickenbacher

One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson.

Andrew Jackson

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