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   courage

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

Dolores Ibarruri
in a 1936 speech

   

The brave person is not one who feels
no fear, For that were stupid and
irrational; But one, whose noble soul
its fear subdues, And bravely dares
the danger nature shrinks from.

Joanna Baillie

 

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace.  The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart

  

  

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Plato
  
Because a person has failed once or twice or a dozen times,
you don't want to set that person down as a failure
till he or she's dead or loses their courage--and that's the same thing.

George Horace Lorimer
   
The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning people.
It is perishing for the want of people of courage and resolution.

Robert J. McCracken

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage
unless you're scared.

Eddie Rickenbacker

  

Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for one's own freedom,
but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks
in the structure of his building of oneself into a person
who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Rollo May

   
  

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue
that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Samuel Johnson
  

  

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents,
our country and children.  Courage comprises all things.

Plautus

    

Dare to begin! One who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

We need the courage to start
and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Richard L. Evans

  
Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

German proverb
  
  

You will never do anything in this world without courage.

James Lane Allen

  

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God grant me the courage not to give up
what I think is right,
even though I think it is hopeless.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

  

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery--courage in escaping from
old ideas and old standards.

James Harvey Robinson

 
  

Courage takes many forms.  There is physical courage, there is moral courage.
Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain,
to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life;
to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Howard Cosell

  
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human
history is shaped.  Each time a person stands up for an ideal or strikes out
against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing
each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those
ripples build a current which can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy
  

There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence
in the meaning and significance of life.  Such courage is an underground river,
flowing far beneath the shifting events of one’s experience,
keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

Howard Thurman

  
   
You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

Mary Tyler Moore
   

  

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

  

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the
most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the
greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest
efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately
apprehensive about tripping.

Francis de Sales

   

    

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