Courage Quotes - Page 38

• A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Needs, Bail

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• This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

  Euripides

  Inspiration, Men, Heaven

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Bravery

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

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• I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

  Brené Brown

  Compassion, Connections

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press

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• If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Respect, Adversity, Humanity

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• Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

  Winston Churchill

  Jobs, Giving, President

  Speech on radio, 9 Feb. 1941, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 6, p. 6350

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• You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

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• When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Laughter, People

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• When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

  Dan Millman

  Success, Running, Wisdom

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.85, H J Kramer

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• A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Warrior, Power

  Carlos Castaneda (1974). “Tales of Power”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.

  Harriet Lerner

  Acts Of Courage, Acknowledge, Uncertainty

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1986). “The dance of anger: a woman's guide to changing the patterns of intimate relationships”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

  Carson McCullers

  Love, Humility, Imagination

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

  Jean-Francois Regnard

  Danger

  "Le Légataire universel". Play by Jean-François Regnard, January 9, 1708.

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• To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

  John Milius

  Being Strong, Simple, People

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• You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspiring, Risk

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• There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Believe, Trust No One, May

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• Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

  Tobias Smollett

  Motivation, Fall, Brave

  Tobias Smollett (2014). “Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"”, p.36, University of Georgia Press

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• There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is "guts."

  Louis Adamic

  Country, Integrity, Character

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• My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

  Kurt Cobain

  Honesty, Fear, Integrity

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• The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

  Thomas Malthus

  Integrity, Faces, May

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.159, Penguin UK

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• Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Integrity, Might

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.239, Modern Library

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• I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.

  Mary Tyler Peabody Mann

  Integrity, Aspiration

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• I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

  William Faulkner

  Integrity, Believe, Self

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Fighting, Acceptance

  "Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn, 1946.

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