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Courage Quotes
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has
that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something
else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in
himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the
end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and
moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had
never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless
you’re scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. ~Marvin Kitman
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones
Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon
McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ~Ambrose
Bierce
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
~Thomas Fuller
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the
testing point. ~C.S. Lewis
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a
final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and
tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel
de Montaigne
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to
prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in
spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of
virtue and reason. ~Alfred North Whitehead
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward
Weeks
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently
celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not
forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~John F. Kennedy
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the
courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
~Coventry Patmore
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
~Douglas Malloch
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ~Albert Camus
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and
hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it
costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain,Notebook, 1935
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that
courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked
before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter
what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and
a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter