Courage Quotes - Page 15

• To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Opportunity, Magic, Special

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Heartbroken, Carpe Diem, Life And Death

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• To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

  Rollo May

  Reality, Like Love, Giving

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Confidence

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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

  Tacitus

  Fear, Bravery, Despair

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• When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Power, Helping Others

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

  Douglas Malloch

  Steel, Daggers, Relentless

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• Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

  Christopher Paolini

  Real, Believe, People

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.243, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

  John Ruskin

  Race, Rude, Gentleman

  John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.288

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• He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

  Voltaire

  Bravery, Doe, Witness

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• What is to give light must endure burning.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

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• There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, Long, People

  "Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Someone Has to Be Courageous Enough to Actually Stand Up to The Bullies’" by Nathaniel Botwinick, www.nationalreview.com. February 12, 2013.

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• The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Vigor, Genius, Eccentric

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Hands, Essentials

  James Anthony Froude (1867). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.394

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  What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Moving Forward

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.111, Middleway Press

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Integrity, Character

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Men, Forget, Acts Of Bravery

  John F. Kennedy (1963). “Profiles in Courage”

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• Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Strong, Revenge, Self

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• You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

  Jackson Katz

  Change, Strength, Women

  "Violence against women — it's a men's issue". TEDxFiDiWomen, www.ted.com. November 2012.

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• Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Affection, Habit, Ends

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• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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