Courage Quotes - Page 9

• We must have 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

  Life, Happiness, Ideas

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• Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

  Winston Churchill

  Virtue, Depends

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• Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Failure, Humility, Persistence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

  Theodore White

  Friendship, Bullying, Thinking Of You

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• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  Aristotle

  Life, Gratitude, Philosophical

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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• A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

  Euripides

  Men, Choices, Bravery

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• One man with courage is a majority.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Success, Teacher

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Strong, Badass

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Life, Love Yourself, Acceptance

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• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  "Against the Grain : An Autobiography" by Boris Yeltsin, (p. 172), 1990.

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• Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Individuality, Desire, Fit

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• Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

  Berton Braley

  Men, Brave, Head Start

  Berton Braley, “Start Where You Stand”

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• Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

  Dennis Prager

  Kindness, Honesty, Integrity

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 07, 2014

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  The Sub-Treasury Speech Springfield, Illinois December 26, 1839

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• In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Dark, Parenting

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Life is to be entered upon with courage.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Worry, Anxiety, Life Is

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• The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
  And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

  William Shakespeare

  Dove, Worms, Turns

  William Shakespeare, John D. Cox, Eric Rasmussen (2001). “King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series”, p.233, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Fear, Brave Face, Bravery

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.124, Shambhala Publications

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• Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla
  Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.
  Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

  Dante Alighieri

  Towers, Tempest, Torres

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• Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

  John Dryden

  Whistling, Being Afraid

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq. in Six Volumes: Volume the sixth. Containing Don Sebastian, King of Portugal. Amphitrion: or, The two sosia's. Cleomenes, The Spartan heroe. King Arthur: or, The British worthy. Love triumphant: or, Nature will prevail”, p.193

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• To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Promise, Lambs, Lions

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.131

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