Courage Quotes

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- Anonymous

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Stand up for what you believe in…even if you stand alone!

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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Lucius Annaeus

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All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them.
- William F. Halsey

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Andre Gide

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Fear and courage are brothers.
- Proverb

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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
- Charles Kennedy

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I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
- Lucille Ball

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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- Plato

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All serious daring starts from within.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Optimism is the foundation of courage.
- Nicholas Murray

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One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson

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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
- Baltasar Gracian

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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
- Dorothy Bernard

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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
- Aesop

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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

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Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.
- Irisa Hail

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Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
- Lauren Raffo

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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
- Marvin Kitman

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Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
- Franklin P. Jones

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
- Dorothy Thompson

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If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs?
- Marvin Kitman

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There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
- John Wainwright

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
- Erich Fromm

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
- Clare Booth Luce

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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
- Ambrose Bierce

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller

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To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
- Edward Weeks

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People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self preservation acts normally.
- Sultana Zoraya

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To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C.S. Lewis

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Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
- Edward Vernon

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain

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Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
- Kurt Goldstein

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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
- James Freeman Clarke

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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman

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Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
- David Ben

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