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Inspirational Quotes About Courage

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Index_card_top “Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
 
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894);
Essayist, Poet, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
 
James Neil Hollingworth (pseudonym Ambrose Redmoon) (1933-1996);
Writer, Former Manager Of The Folk Rock Band Quicksilver Messenger Service


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Index_card_top “Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ”
 
Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973);
Medal Of Honor Recipient


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Index_card_top “Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
 
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924);
Author, Publisher
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Index_card_top “There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.”
 
Alfred Adler (1870-1937);
Psychiatrist
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Index_card_top “I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.”
 
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888);
Novelist
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Index_card_top “I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”
 
Clara Barton (1821-1912);
Teacher, Nurse, Humanitarian


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Index_card_top “Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”
 
Brandan Francis Behan (1923-1964);
Writer, Playwright


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Index_card_top “Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
 
David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973);
Prime Minister Of Israel


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Index_card_top “The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.”
 
Daniel Boorstin (1914-2004);
Historian, U.S. Librarian Of Congress


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Index_card_top “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
 
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965);
British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.”
 
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937);
Aviator, Author
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Index_card_top “To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”
 
Bernard Edmonds -


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Index_card_top “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.”
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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Index_card_top “The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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Index_card_top “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising, which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To Map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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Index_card_top “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.”
 
Henry Ford (1863-1947);
Founder Of Ford Motor Company
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Index_card_top “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
 
André Gide (1869-1951);
Author
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Index_card_top “Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
 
Baltasar Gracian (1601-1656);
Author


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Index_card_top “The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”
 
Corra Harris (1869-1935);
Author, Writer


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Index_card_top “A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”
 
Grace Hopper (1906-1992);
Computer Scientist, Naval Officer
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Index_card_top “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.”
 
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915);
Philosopher, Author, Publisher
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Index_card_top “One man with courage makes a majority.”
 
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845);
7th U.S. President
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Index_card_top “The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.”
 
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930);
Novelist, Literary Critic
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Index_card_top “The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.”
 
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930);
Novelist, Literary Critic
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Index_card_top “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point.”
 
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963);
Writer, Theologian, Scholar
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Index_card_top “This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.”
 
Victoria Lincoln (1904-1981);
Novelist


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Index_card_top “Courage is not the towering oak that see storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.”
 
Alice Mackenzie Swaim - Poet


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Index_card_top “We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.”
 
Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975);
Author
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Index_card_top “It may take courage to embrace the possibilities of your own potential, but once you've flown past the summit of your fears, nothing will seem impossible.”
 
Michael McKee - Artist, Author


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Index_card_top “Do not be conquered by fear of loss or defeat, for without them, success and victory would be meaningless.”
 
Mathew Morgan (born 1988);

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Index_card_top “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
 
Anaïs Nin (1903-1977);
Author, Diarist
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Index_card_top “As for courage and will we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.”
 
Andre Norton (1912-2005);
Novelist


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Index_card_top “Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.”
 
Sarah Patton Boyle - American Civil Rights Activist


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Index_card_top “Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.”
 
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Index_card_top “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
 
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Index_card_top “If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
 
Nora Roberts (born 1950);
Fiction Author


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Index_card_top “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
 
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967);
Poet, Historian, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.”
 
Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966);
Poet


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Index_card_top “When in doubt, do the courageous thing.”
 
Jan Smuts (1870-1950);
South African Prime Minister, General


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Index_card_top “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
 
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894);
Essayist, Poet, Novelist
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Index_card_top “There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.”
 
Diana Trilling (1905-1996);
Literary Critic, Author


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Index_card_top “Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.”
 
Mark Twain (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
 
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890);
Post Impressionist Painter
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Index_card_top “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
 
Carl Hermann Voss - Congregational Minister


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Index_card_top “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”
 
John R. Wooden (born 1910);
Basketball Coach, Author
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Index_card_top “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
 
Aristotle (384-322);
Philosopher
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Index_card_top “No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.”
 
Athenæus - Greek Grammarian, Rhetorician
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Index_card_top “He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.”
 
Aristotle (384-322);
Philosopher
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Index_card_top “Stand up for what you believe in-even if it means standing alone.”
 
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Index_card_top “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember: An amateur built the Ark--professionals built the Titanic.”
 
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Index_card_top “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
 
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Index_card_top “It's never too late to be what you might have been.”
 
George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880);
Novelist, Editor
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“Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.”
 
James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888);
Preacher And Author


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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
 
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963);
Writer, Theologian, Scholar
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“To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula. It's an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all and each person must look for that courage in his own soul. ”
 
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963);
35th Us President
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“Leap and the net will appear.”
 
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“It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it. ”
 
Pablo Casals (1876-1973);
Cellist, Conductor
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“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”
 
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004);
Actor, Producer, Director, And Writer; Best Known For His Role As Superman
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“Have the courage of your desire.”
 
George R. Gissing (1857-1903);
English Novelist


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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
 
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965);
British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner
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“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. ”
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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