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Quotes About Courage

But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet The dark unbottomed infinite abyss And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle?
~ John Milton
th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?
~ John Milton
Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.
~ John Milton
What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not what resolution from despair.
~ John Milton
All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what else is not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
~ John Milton
so much the fear, Of Thunder and the Sword of Michael, Wrought still within them:
~ John Milton
47: Equal in strength, and rather then be less 48: Car'd not to be at all; with that care lost 49: Went all his fear:
~ John Milton
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
~ John Milton
For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.
~ John Milton
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.
~ John Muir
Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
~ John Muir
therefore all childish fear must be put away.
~ John Muir
We turned and sailed away, joining the outgoing bergs, while gloria in excels is still seemed to be sounding over all the white landscape, and our burning hearts were ready for any fate, feeling that whatever the future might have in store, the treasures we had gain would enrich our lives forever.
~ John Muir
Aside from mere money profit one would rather herd wolves than sheep.
~ John Muir
But we little know until tried, how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging us across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.
~ John Muir
Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!
~ John Newman
Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to follow its path.
~ John O'Donohue
The beautiful can exist at the edge precisely because it has nothing to lose and everything to give away. FREDERICK TURNER OUR
~ John O'Donohue
The most subversive invitation you could ever accept is the invitation to awaken to who you are and where you have landed.
~ John O'Donohue
May I live this day Compassionate of heart, Clear in word, Gracious in awareness, Courageous in thought, Generous in love.
~ John O'Donohue
I have learned myself painfully that you can only relate to someone if you somehow have the courage and the need to inhabit your own solitude. You can only relate out of your separateness, otherwise you are just using the other person to shield you from your own solitude.
~ John O'Donohue
When we love and allow ourselves to be loved, we begin more and more to inhabit the kingdom of the eternal. Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plentitude, and distance becomes intimacy.
~ John O'Donohue
One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.
~ John O'Donohue
refuse to begin can be an act of great self-neglect.
~ John O'Donohue