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Quotes About Courage

The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.
~ Susan Jeffers
Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
~ William S. Burroughs
I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.
~ Amelia Earhart
When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.
~ Rebecca Pippert
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
~ Ludwig Borne
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
~ E. W. Howe
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
~ Terence McKenna
Fear is where the information is.
~ Sally Field
What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.
~ Oliver Smithies
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
It is amazing how much knowledge we have of hope. Whisper bravely into the dark, heart — whisper bravely.
~ Simon J. Ortiz
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.
~ Denis Waitley
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.
~ Adyashanti
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are to the adventurous."
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.
~ Frederick Lenz
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
~ Horace
Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
~ Twyla Tharp
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.
~ Dominique Pire
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
~ Socrates, Apology
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.
~ Phyllis McGinley