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Quotes About Courage

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
With renunciation life begins.
~ Amelia Barr
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~ Colette
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
~ Joanna Baillie
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
~ Chris Evert
You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
~ Susanna Clark
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.
~ Julia Child
He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.
~ Latin proverb
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.
~ George Cullum
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
~ Ralph W. Sockman
Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.
~ Chinese proverb
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~ William James
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
~ Kathleen Norris
If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
~ Sally Stanford
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
~ Saint Catherine of Siena
This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
~ Euripides
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
~ Dr. Kurt Goldstein
Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
~ General William T. Sherman
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
~ Teresa of Avila
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
~ Katherine Mansfield