Courage Quotes

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

  Henry Drummond

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

  Maya Angelou

  Encouraging, Fear, Mean

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.

  Orrin Woodward

  Conviction, Results, Bigger

  Twitter post from Jun 27, 2016

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• Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Distance, Simple

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• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Opposites, Flow, Conformity

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• Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strength, Moving On, Encouraging

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• Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

  Francis of Assisi

  Heart, Sacrifice, Insperational

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• Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Determination, Risk, Energy

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.273, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Confidence

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• Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

  Terry Goodkind

  Choices, Sometimes, Forks

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.292, Head of Zeus

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Fear

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

  Arthur Koestler

  Business, Thought Provoking, Bravery

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Needs, Might

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• Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mean, Imperfection, Peaceful

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• The secret of freedom, courage.

  Thucydides

  Freedom, Secret

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

  Robertson Davies

  Adversity, Ordinary Extraordinary, People

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fear

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Law, Faithful, Principles

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  Arthur Ashe

  Memorial Day, Hero, Army

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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