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Quotes About Courage

Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.
~ Robert Kennedy
When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.
~ Paulo Coelho
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.
~ Paulo Coelho
Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.
~ Irshad Manji
Courage is adversity's lamp.
~ Luc de Clapiers
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
~ William Shakespeare
The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.
~ Peter Koestenbaum
My parents were always clear with my brothers and I when we were growing up that you have to have the courage of your convictions and that when you commit to something you must fully commit.
~ David Pocock
There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.
~ John Calvin
my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
~ Jane Austen
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The best hearts are ever the bravest.
~ Laurence Sterne
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
~ David Seabury
Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
~ Dante Alighieri
Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.
~ Unknown
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.
~ Walt Kelly
Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
~ David McCullough
Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error
~ Dale Carnegie
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.
~ David Seabury
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.
~ Anna Quindlen
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
~ Seneca the Younger