Courage Quotes - Page 31

• There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Determination, Vision, Sun

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• A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Hope, Heart, Men

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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• Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

  Henry George Bohn

  Eye, Bravery, Arms

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1899). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages, and a Complete Alphabetical Index”

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• I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

  Stephen Spender

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Government, Able, Virtue

  Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”

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• Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

  Whitney M. Young

  Strong, Giving, Support

  "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens ", TV Series (1999– ). "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

  David Spangler

  Powerful, Healing, Creativity

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• Courage is knowing what to fear.

  Plato

  Knowing

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• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

  Immanuel Kant

  Lying, Men, Self

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• Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

  Joseph Addison

  Hero, Men, Compassion

  Joseph Addison (1808). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.38

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• What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Wise, Caring, Groups

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• Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

  Horace

  Fool, Shame, Wounds

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• Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Chasms, Pure, Consequence

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• The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"

  David B. Haight

  Dust, Leader, Needs

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• A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Men, Thinking, Laughing

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

  Portia de Rossi

  Gay, Thinking, Ethos

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

  Rollo May

  Responsibility, Decision, Littles

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.173, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.

  Helen Slater

  Thinking, May, Acoustics

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• The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

  George Weinberg

  World, Steps, Opinion

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• These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

  Major Taylor

  Simple, May, Enough

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Teenager, Writing, Skills

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• I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

  August Strindberg

  Dog, Fighting, Coward

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Confession of a Fool”, p.214, The Floating Press

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• Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Moral, Virtue, Higher

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• His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

  William Manchester

  Two, Twenties, Heroism

  William Manchester (1983). “American Caesar”, Laurel

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• It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

  Jean-Francois Regnard

  Heart, Bravery, Peril

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