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Courage Quotes


"Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping it's life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass."


"You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps."


"No one was getting past him."


"I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that."


"It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead."


"If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting."


"Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."


"I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this."


"To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is To Eliminate Fear."


"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."


"By all means, somebody will oppose it, but if only it is a noble cause pleasant to God, you have no reason to retreat!"


"The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk."


"Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people - but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil."


"Fear makes a cub sound like a lion. Faith makes a lion sound like a cub."


"Courage leads you to win battles everyone may lose."



"When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them."


"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."


"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."


"A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome."


"When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it."


"The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring."


"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."


"To cultivate bravery and courage, interview brave people and learn their secrets.Whom do you know that displays courage and confidence? Ask them for their best practices, mimic their actions, follow their steps, utilize their methods. Ask if they will mentor you."


"Dare to forge your own path. Even rocks can roll."


"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."


"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."


"Fear comes at me like a massive bull with lowered horns ready to gore. But I have learned of the insubstantial nature of fear: if I stand my ground, it will pass right through me."
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