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Quotes About Courage

Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
~ Kathrine Switzer
It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.
~ J. M. W. Turner
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
~ Ruby Dee
Courage means willing to risk everything.
~ Sanford Meisner
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
~ Christopher McCandless
Optimism is the true moral courage
~ Ernest Shackleton
In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.
~ Cesare Borgia
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
~ Albert Einstein
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
~ Bob Goff
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
~ Rollo May
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
~ Maxwell Maltz
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances
~ Alice Hoffman
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
~ Adrienne Rich
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.
~ Pericles
it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
~ Marie Antoinette
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
~ Jan Smuts
What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
~ William Shakespeare
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
~ Mark Twain
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca