Courage Quotes - Page 34

• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

  Henry Drummond

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Love, Noble, Kind

  Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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  It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Inspiring, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam

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• Boldness be my friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Bravery, My Friends, Boldness

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 1, sc. 6, l. 16

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• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Lying, Memorable

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 30

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• An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Blood, Soul, Battle

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.176, 1st World Publishing

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• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Success, Work, Failure

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.15, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

  Jessica Simpson

  Stupid, Thinking, Differences

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• I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

  Wallis Simpson

  Sometimes, Offers, New Things

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• There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Leadership, Ambition, Trying

  Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

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• You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Life, Power, Men

  The First Circle ch. 17 (1968)

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• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Peace

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• I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Baby, Explanation

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Jun 30, 2016

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• Bravery never goes out of fashion.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Memorial Day, Fashion, Hero

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1891). “The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London”

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• What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

  James Thurber

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  James Thurber (1983). “Credos and Curios”, HarperCollins

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• Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

  Glenn Turner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Apr. 1934. A similar remark, attributed to an anonymous octogenarian, appears in the Washington Post, 11 Sept. 1910. See Jefferson 42

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• Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

  Jessamyn West

  Writing, Helpful, Talent

  Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

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• Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Misery, Have Courage

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• A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Fall, May

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• Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

  Orson Scott Card

  Love Is, Luxury, Enemy

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Empire”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Perseverance, Failure, Mean

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• You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

  Eva Jessye

  Memories, Adversity, Past

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