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Quotes About Courage

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
~ Cookie Lavagetto
One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
~ James A. Worsham
We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
~ Robert E. Lee
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.
~ Mother Jones
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker, old pard! Just draw on your grit, it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
~ Robert W. Service
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
~ Helen Keller
Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."
~ Eliza Cook
Sometimes "the fool who rushes in" gets the job done.
~ Al Bernstein
Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.
~ Anonymous
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
~ Charles Wesley
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
~ Ovid
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
~ Napoleon
It is cowardice to commit suicide.
~ Napoleon
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
~ Erica Jong
Get thee behind me, Satan.
~ Matthew
Heap high the board with plenteous cheer, and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. Give praise to that All-Gracious One by whom their steps were led, And thanks unto the harvest's Lord who sends our "daily bread."
~ Alice Williams
If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.
~ James Petersen
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
~ Thomas Fuller
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
~ Brendan Francis
We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
~ Thomas E. Dewey
The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.
~ Bernie Wiebe
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
~ Rollo May
Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell, Harricum!
~ Harry S. Truman
The sea - the truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
~ Joseph Conrad