Courage Quotes - Page 11

• Life without the courage for death is slavery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Slavery

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• Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Peace, Military

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Friendship, Women

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 17 (1997)

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• When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Voice, Speak

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

  Paul Tillich

  Positive, Confidence, Self Esteem

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Peace, Integrity, Women

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

  Phillips Brooks

  Independent, Independence, Remember

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

  Plutarch

  Men, Evil, Risk

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.

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• The best hearts are ever the bravest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.

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• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3734, Delphi Classics

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• The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Fate, Enemy

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• * We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

  Oren Lyons

  Family, Peace, Needs

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• A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Thinking, Bravery

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.379

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• It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

  Pablo Casals

  Healing, People, Goodness

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• And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humanity, Individuality, Demand

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.51

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• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Color, Hypocrisy, Quality

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• Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

  Robert E. Lee

  Army, Yield, Virginia

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• The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sacrifice, Intellectual, Mind

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.60

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• Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Country, Home, Knowledge

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• I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

  George Eliot

  Men, Thinking, Looks

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.329, Wordsworth Editions

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• Courage in danger is half the battle.
  [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

  Plautus

  Battle, Bonus, Half

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• When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

  Leigh Hunt

  Moral, Daring, Feels

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.63

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• Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

  Ben Jonson

  Suffering, Valor, Ifs

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.537

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• To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

  Sallust

  Safety, Enemy, Battle

  Sallust (1896). “Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jugurthine War”

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• Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Opportunity, Prudent, Fool

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.476

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