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Quotes About Courage

I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
A good horse is a man's best friend in time of danger.
~ Israel Putnam
Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
~ Jack Layton
Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
~ Jimmy Page
You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.
~ Sean Taylor
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
~ Jesse Jackson
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.
~ Alan Shepard
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
~ Arthur Ashe
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
~ Duke Ellington
Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.
~ Selena
Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.
~ Stephen King
If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.
~ George S. Patton
Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.
~ Jeanette Lee
Ebie, dear child. And he took me in his strong arms. You aren't angry with me? I couldn't believe it. Angry? Of course not. Courage is shown in different ways, Ebie. If others don't always recognize it, that's their fault, not ours.
~ Ann Rinaldi
Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again--
~ Anna Akhmatova
SmÄ›j se vÅ¡emu a nenech se ostatními vyvést z míry! Zdá se to sobecké, ale ve skute?nosti je to jediný lék proti sebelítosti.
~ Anna Frank
Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
~ Anna Katharine Green
When the Fascists entered Denmark, the Jews were ordered to sew yellow stars on their clothing so they could be easily recognized. The Danes promptly sewed on yellow stars, both to save the Jews and to save themselves from turning into Fascists. Their king joined with them. In
~ Anna Politkovskaya
And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability to slog through adversity, which looks like strength from the outside and just feels like every day when it's happening to you.
~ Anna Quindlen
It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make it through the afternoon without a stained blouse and a scolding. To persuade the girl next door to like me. To meet a man. To make a mint. To prosper. To love. To live fearlessly.
~ Anna Quindlen
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.
~ Anna Quindlen
I think every fear you ever have, every one -- thunder or spiders or roller coasters -- they're all fear of dying. Every last one.
~ Anna Quindlen