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Courage Quotes


"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."


"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."


"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."


"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."


"Courage is the vision that lets us see ourselves in the mirror of our fears."


"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."


"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."


"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."


"There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life."


"When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up."



"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."


"Acting courageously is about knowing and making the right choices based on a deep conviction that dwarfs fear, doubt, and worry."


"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"


"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."


"The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we'd like to be. And that sucks. But when you're confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up."


"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."


"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by."


"The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing."


"A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things."


"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."



"Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage."


"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."


"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."


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


"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."


"He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone."
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