Courage Quotes - Page 33

• Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.

  N.D. Wilson

  Believe, Hero, Evil

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.173, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Hardships make or break people.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Being Strong, Perseverance, Adversity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

  Thomas Merton

  Moving On, Faith, Heart

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.206, Image

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• when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Feelings, Pet

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Cats”, p.105, Canongate Books

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• Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

  Anna Quindlen

  Heart, Character, Voice

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• It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stupid, Anticipation, Danger

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Final Problem" (1893).

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• You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Lakes, Two, Feet

  "The Courage to Stand Alone: Conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti". Book edited by Ellen J. Chrystal (Part III: Nice Meeting You, and Goodbye), 2001.

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• Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

  Tom Clancy

  Terrified, Know How, Knows

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• Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Fear, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.224, Penguin

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• And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  World, Feels, Whole

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• The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beauty, Honesty, Life And Love

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• There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

  Bear Grylls

  Dark, Journey, Bravery

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• There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

  Alistair Maclean

  Son, Men, Brave

  ALISTAIR MACLEAN (1956). “THE GUNS OF NAVARONE”

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• In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.

  Peggy Noonan

  Strong, Clever, Character

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• Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Cost, Benefits

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• If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Rocks, African American, Slavery

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• It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Diversity, Bravery, Culture

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

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• True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Memorial Day, Brave

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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• Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

  Walter Lord

  Men, Skills, Odds

  Walter Lord (2012). “Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

  Plutarch

  Challenges, Enemy, Valor

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.183

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• What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Bravery, Tree, Risk

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Piano, Smell, Feet

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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• It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Dream, Strong, Men

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• For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  People, Fool, Wells

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• It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Ruts, Guts

  Robert H. Schuller (1988). “Living Positively One Day at a Time”, Berkley

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