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Courage Quotes


"Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out."


"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."



"She let the fear burn inside her like fuel, making her voice even stronger."



"Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it."



"Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist, knows that he must lay himself down and die before morning comes, stole upon him, paling the colour of his eyes, giving him, even in the two minutes of his turn on the terrace, the bleached look of withered old age. Yet he would not die lying down; he would find some crag of rock, and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to the end to pierce the darkness, he would die standing. He would never reach R."



"You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad."


"Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want."


"Practice bravery every day and the self-worth will come."


"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."


"It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all."


"Are you going to threaten to kill anyone?" Vega asked dryly.Even though he knew she wasn't being completely serious, the truth was, he would kill someone if they attempted to harm her. "I won't threaten anyone." Which was the truth. If he had to act, he would just kill, not bother with meaningless threats."


"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."



"Bellona has answered my prayer. She doesn't fight my battles for me. She doesn't guarantee me easy victory. She grants me opportunities to prove myself. She gives me strong enemies and potential allies."



"We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear."



"Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise."


"You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!"



"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."


"Don't quit. A wind from nowhere could turn it."


"To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again."



"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"


"But you can't put fight into a man's guts if hehasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcan't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in themoment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind."


"Don't be a bully, don't be meanBe a hero, don't be afraid to be seen."


"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."


"Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours."


"Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do."


"I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we're afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it."


"Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again."


"It's a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruelty is at the root of life. And the reason why I have only given my attention to the heroic or the beautiful or the intelligent is because I won't accept that injustice and the cruelty, and so won't accept the small endurance that is bigger than anything."


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


"In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion."



"You must build and develop a greater force on the inside of you, in this way, you will be able to speak and stand against ungodliness and injustice in the land."
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