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Quotes About Courage

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
~ Mason Cooley
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
~ Unknown
That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.
~ Jasinda Wilder
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
~ Aeschylus
But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.
~ Jessi Kirby
Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.
~ Meg Ryan
Wine fills the heart with courage.
~ Plato
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
~ Sinclair Lewis
We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
~ Sam Keen
Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, by which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
~ Unknown
What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
~ William Shatner
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
~ Vicki Baum
The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.
~ Ronald Reagan
Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.
~ Joan Crawford
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
~ Jane Addams
We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them.
~ Gloria Feldt
It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
~ Azar Nafisi
Courage is the only Magic worth having.
~ Erica Jong
Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.
~ Danielle Trussoni
It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
~ Jean-Francois Regnard
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.
~ Michael Mullen