Courage Quotes - Page 27

• We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Writing, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.95, Library of Alexandria

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• Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Recovery, Power, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Bravery, Fearless

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am more important than my problems.

  Jose Ferrer

  Important, Problem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Fear, Reptiles, Results

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

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• It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

  Marion Woodman

  Past, Stand Alone, Break

  Marion Woodman (1982). “Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride : a Psychological Study”

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• Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Hands, Left Hand, Have Courage

  "1927". Book by Robert P. Fitton, 2000.

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• And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

  Epictetus

  Greatness, Endurance, Bears

  Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Culture, Youth, Modern

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• Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

  Robert Blair

  Bears, Whistling

  Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.13

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• It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

  Matthew Fox

  Inspirational, Despair, Renaissance

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• Where I could not be honest,
  I never yet was valiant.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Being Honest, Valiant

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.262

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• The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Soldier, Brave Soldiers, Profession

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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Lions, Safe

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• What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Motivation, Failure

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2014

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• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Ucla

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Bravery, Essentials

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• All happiness depends on courage and work.

  Honore de Balzac

  Life, Happiness, Depends

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• We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Trust, Real

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• But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Grief, Men, Suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

  Bertrand Russell

  Motivational, Atheist, Kindness

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Successful

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