Courage Quotes - Page 29

• Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Determination, Risk, Energy

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.273, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

  Piers Anthony

  Fear, Coward, Heroism

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Castle Roogna”, p.46, Del Rey

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• Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, God, Spiritual

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• You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Faces, Looks

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• If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Learning, Knowledge, Ideas

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• There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God we may have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

  Harold Stassen

  Selfish, Men, Goal

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• Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Sight, Hands

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• If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

  Kurt Warner

  Football, Dream, Motivational Sports

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• Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store of courage. Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost

  Roger Dawson

  Inspirational, Determination, Race

  Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Exercise, Men

  Selected Quotations from John F. Kennedy's Book "Profiles in Courage", www.jfklibrary.org. 1957.

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• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Believe, Russia, Worst Enemy

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• This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Law, Faithful, Principles

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Motivational Sports, Goal

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• The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, East, West

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.217, Xist Publishing

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• Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

  George Santayana

  Humility, Men, Grace

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Belief, Absence

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

  James Forrestal

  Prosperity, Tenacity, Capacity

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• We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

  Sterling W Sill

  Inspirational, Positive, Bridges

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• The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

  Gary Zukav

  Lying, Moving, Journey

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Motivational, Differences, Doe

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• Courage is caution overcome.

  Lyman Abbott

  Overcoming, Caution

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

  Herbert Spencer

  Truth, Book, Men

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• Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Heart, Understanding

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• Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

  Terry Goodkind

  Choices, Sometimes, Forks

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.292, Head of Zeus

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