Courage Quotes - Page 12

• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Integrity, Beast, Conscience

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Fate, Enemy

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• Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

  Ben Jonson

  Suffering, Valor, Ifs

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.537

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• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Color, Hypocrisy, Quality

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• Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

  Phillips Brooks

  Independent, Independence, Remember

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.179, Tuttle Publishing

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• Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Time

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• What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

  William Shakespeare

  Cat, Care, Enough

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. [135]

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• Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Integrity

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• There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

  Thomas Southerne

  Causes, Innocence, Honest

  Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.301

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• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

  Stephen Covey

  Goal, Promise, Way

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (2015). “First Things First”, p.404, Mango Media Inc.

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• Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Doubt, Doe

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• A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

  Lewis Mumford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug.

  Jonathan Bowden

  Thug, Years, Bravery

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Leadership, Powerful, Integrity

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• That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Breakfast, Lions, Fleas

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.454

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• I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Dream, Commitment

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• Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.

  Alonzo King

  Life, Dance, Wisdom

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• You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Loving Someone, Risk

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• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

  Dan Rather

  Sympathy, Cancer, Grief

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

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• I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Dream, Believe

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• Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

  William James

  Encouragement, Sith, Emergencies

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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• Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Bravery, Taught, Terrified

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.120, Penguin

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