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Quotes About Courage

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
~ Edna Ferber
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
~ Louise Bourgeois
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
~ Paul Tillich
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
A hero is a man who does what he can.
~ Romain Rolland
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.
~ John P. Loughrane
Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman, not the grief of a child ...
~ Kara DiGiovanna
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
~ William Wrigley
In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions, but I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them and make them right.
~ General George S. Patton
There is a potential heroine in every woman.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
~ Lucan
Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.
~ Barbara Gordon
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
~ George Eliot
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
~ Ruth Gordon
Despair is criminal.
~ Samuel Johnson
No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
~ Louis Brandeis
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.
~ Agnes Macphail
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.
~ Charles de Gaulle
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.
~ William Blake
There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.
~ Margaret Mitchell
They have rights who dare defend them.
~ Roger Baldwin