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Quotes About Courage

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
~ Bernard Shaw
Your soul is a trooper. If you find you're stronger than you thought, don't waste a moment being surprised by it — be motivated, and stronger, and start the race!
~ Terri Guillemets
Don't think you're on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path.
~ Author Unknown
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause & reflect).
~ Mark Twain, 1905
Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable.
~ Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in a just cause.
~ Proverb
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 he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.
~ Mark Twain
Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
A brave arm makes a short sword long enough.
~ French proverb
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.
~ Terri Guillemets
Consider the flea! Incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
~ Mark Twain
Let your fear dance with courage — and let courage lead.
~ Terri Guillemets
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
~ Joseph Epstein
Taste just a sliver of courage and it's hard to go back to fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
Courage climbs atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory!
~ Terri Guillemets
And as passion is the foundation of courage, such warlike natures, whether of men or animals, will be full of passion.
~ Plato
Justice is the foundation of courage...
~ James Murray, 1780
The existence of truth is the foundation of intelligence; the fountain of love is the foundation of benevolence; the beginning of movement is the foundation of courage.
~ Chen Li?fu, 1948
Courage is the foundation of leadership.
~ Peter Koestenbaum, 2002
Vision is the foundation of courage and the fuel of persistence.
~ Myles Munroe, 2003
Intellectual courage is the foundation of good judgment. It is a balance between the strength of conviction and flexibility.
~ Christopher Kolenda
Hard times require furious dancing.
~ Alice Walker
We spend all our lives building wings of faith so that we can fearlessly fly off into another world.
~ Terri Guillemets