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Courage Quotes


"My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation."


"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."


"The sky belongs to eagles, even during storms."


"Courage treats the weak better than fear treats the strong."


"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."


"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."


"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."


"It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."


"As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are."


"Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world."


"Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself."


"Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster."


"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."


"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."


"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"


"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."


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


"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."



"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."


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


"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."


"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."



"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."


"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."
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