Courage Quotes - Page 38

• The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

  David McCullough

  Quality, Firsts

  David McCullough (2005). “1776”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

  David McCullough

  Men, Self, Despair

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

  Dan Millman

  Enough, Ifs

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.292, H J Kramer

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• Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

  Dan Millman

  Sleep, Warrior, Night

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.293, H J Kramer

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• ...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, People, Different

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• We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Empowerment, Brightness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

  Martina McBride

  Inspirational, Strong, White

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• Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.

  Holly Near

  Inspirational, Rocks, Empowerment

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• Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Meditation, Special, Energy

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.

  Frank Skinner

  Bravery, Risk, Hearing

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• The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Class, Evil

  "The Natural History of Pliny".

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• Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Motivational, Spiritual, Believe

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• It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.

  Harriet Lerner

  Acts Of Courage, Acknowledge, Uncertainty

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1986). “The dance of anger: a woman's guide to changing the patterns of intimate relationships”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

  Carson McCullers

  Love, Humility, Imagination

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

  Jean-Francois Regnard

  Danger

  "Le Légataire universel". Play by Jean-François Regnard, January 9, 1708.

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• To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

  John Milius

  Being Strong, Simple, People

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• You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspiring, Risk

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• There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Believe, Trust No One, May

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• Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

  Tobias Smollett

  Motivation, Fall, Brave

  Tobias Smollett (2014). “Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"”, p.36, University of Georgia Press

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• There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is "guts."

  Louis Adamic

  Country, Integrity, Character

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• My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

  Kurt Cobain

  Honesty, Fear, Integrity

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• The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

  Thomas Malthus

  Integrity, Faces, May

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.159, Penguin UK

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• Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Integrity, Might

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.239, Modern Library

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• I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.

  Mary Tyler Peabody Mann

  Integrity, Aspiration

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• I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

  William Faulkner

  Integrity, Believe, Self

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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