Courage Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Mignon McLaughlin,
Mark Twain
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| It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. |
| - Aesop |
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| A brave arm makes a short sword long. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| A man of courage never wants weapons. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. |
| - David Ben-Gurion |
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| Courage is fear that has said its prayers. |
| - Dorothy Bernard |
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| Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. |
| - Lawana Blackwell |
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| Necessity does the work of courage. |
| - Nicholas Murray Butler |
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| Optimism is the foundation of courage. |
| - Nicholas Murray Butler |
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| The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. |
| - Albert Camus |
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| Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. |
| - Cicero |
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| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. |
| - Euripides |
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| I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. |
| - E.M. Forster |
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| Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. |
| - Thomas Fuller |
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| Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. |
| - Thomas Fuller |
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| No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. |
| - Henry S. Haskins |
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| Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. |
| - Ernest Hemingway |
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| One man with courage makes a majority. |
| - Andrew Jackson |
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| Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. |
| - Franklin P. Jones |
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| For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. |
| - Marvin Kitman |
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| If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? |
| - Marvin Kitman |
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| Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. |
| - Arthur Koestler |
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| I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. |
| - Harper Lee |
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| It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. |
| - Harper Lee |
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| Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. |
| - C.S. Lewis |
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| Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. |
| - Clare Booth Luce |
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| Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. |
| - Douglas Malloch |
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| Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. |
| - Menander |
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| Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. |
| - Anaïs Nin |
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| Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. |
| - George Smith Patton |
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| Courage is a kind of salvation. |
| - Plato |
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| Courage is knowing what not to fear. |
| - Plato |
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| Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. |
| - Dan Rather |
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| A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. |
| - Jean Paul Richter |
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| Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. |
| - Carl Sandburg |
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| Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword. |
| - Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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| Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Fortune helps the brave. |
| - Terence |
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| 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 |
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| In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Fortune favors the brave. |
| - Virgil |
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| Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. |
| - John Wayne |
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| True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. |
| - Alfred North Whitehead |
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