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Quotes About Courage

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
~ Ruth Gordon
Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
~ Preston Bradley
On many of the great issues of our time men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.
~ William Benton
Carolyn Heilbrun
~ Unknown
If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.
~ John Foster Dulles
Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.
~ Terence
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
~ Dorothea Brande
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
~ Unknown
School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals.
~ Donna Brazile
Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
~ Johann von Goethe
In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
~ Unknown
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
~ Vittorio Conte Alfieri
When moral courage feels that it is in the right there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
~ Leigh Hunt
Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
~ Ovid
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
~ Jean Paul Richter
My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.
~ Elizabeth Esty
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
~ Les Brown
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
~ Christopher Lee
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
~ Gordon Brown
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
~ Kalpana Chawla