Courage Quotes

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

  Plautus

  Life, Eloquence

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• It is brave to be involved

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Justice, Brave, Action

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.57, Library of America

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• There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Motivation, Fear, Moving

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• The real gift of love is self disclosure.

  John Powell

  Real, Love Is, Self

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• From caring comes courage.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Strong

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  The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sad

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• Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Hugh Walpole

  Inspirational, Work, Gambling

  Hugh Walpole (2007). “Fortitude”, p.350, 1st World Publishing

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  I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Life, Positive, Death

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• God holds with the strong.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Strong

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1905). “Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini...”

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• Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

  Maya Angelou

  Encouraging, Fear, Mean

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• Happiness is a form of courage.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

  George MacDonald

  Strength, Being Strong, Dark

  George MacDonald (1904). “The Day Boy and the Night Girl”, p.48, Library of Alexandria

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• Knowledge without courage is sterile.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

  William Halsey

  Inspirational, Adversity, Empowerment

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• Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Intelligent

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• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Success, Meaningful

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus

  Military, Battle, Half

  "Pseudolus". Play by Plautus, Act I, scene 5, line 37, 191 B.C..

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Desperate, Cowardice, Aggravated

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• Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Science

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• Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strength, Moving On, Encouraging

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  I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• Fortune befriends the bold.

  Emily Dickinson

  Confidence, Determination, Fear

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• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Opposites, Flow, Conformity

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