Courage Quotes - Page 35

• Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Distance, Simple

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Arms, Valiant

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• Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Children, Tongue

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is in the small things we see it.
  The child's first step,
  as awesome as an earthquake.
  The first time you rode a bike,
  wallowing up the sidewalk.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Earthquakes, Firsts

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Helping, Determined, Conviction

  Twitter post from Dec 27, 2015

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• The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Self Esteem

  Brian Tracy (2010). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.149, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Warrior, Civilization

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• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Decide Upon, Soldier, Needs

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• Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

  Nelson Mandela

  Giving Up, Men, Flames

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.403, Hachette UK

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• You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

  Joe Namath (1987). “Football for Young Players and Parents”, Fireside

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• It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

  James A. Michener

  Army, Ought, Knows

  James A. Michener (2014). “Sayonara: A Novel”, p.64, Dial Press

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• We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

  Richard L. Evans

  Army, Needs, Should

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• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

  Ovid

  Drinking, Passion, Wine

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• Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, Men, Evil

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• Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

  Robin Sharma

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.82, Jaico Publishing House

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• The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and I chewed as fast as I could.

  Paul Hogan

  Greatness, Secret, Bits

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

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• The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Hero, Long

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• Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Fear, Hate, Character

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• Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Fear, Self Esteem, Differences

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• Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bravery, Brave, Despair

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.238, Penguin

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• If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

  Arthur Koestler

  Innovation, Purpose, Sticks

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• When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue; not by wire pulling and demagoguery; not by the arts of popularity; not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency; but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country; by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Teacher, Art

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• So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

  Freeman Dyson

  Life, Humor, Long

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.1, Pantheon

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• What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

  Rollo May

  Heart, Creativity, Mean

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