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Quotes About Courage

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
~ Samuel Smiles
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
~ Billy Graham
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
~ Ray Stannard Baker
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
~ George Eliot
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
~ George Santayana
This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.
~ Ronald Reagan
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
~ Mary Renault
Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.
~ Laozi
Audacity, audacity, always audacity.
~ George S. Patton
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is brave to be involved
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
~ Mark Nepo
Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.
~ Susan Cain
Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
~ Simon Sinek
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
~ Winston Churchill
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.
~ Brene Brown
To get to this place of a warrior's courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.
~ Debbie Ford
the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.
~ Brene Brown