Short Courage Quotes

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 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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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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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, Courage

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

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Nora Ephron

Life, Inspiring, Encouraging

FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Inspirational, Life, Success

Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.192, Crown

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Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Maya Angelou

Life, Happiness, Inspiring

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 08, 2009

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The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Paulo Coelho

Love, Life, Patience

FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 31, 2016

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The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Meg Cabot

Stay Strong, Courage, Business

"The Princess Diaries". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Veterans Day, Courage, Fear

John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.34, Taylor Trade Publications

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Inspirational, Positive, Sports

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

"Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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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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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Bruce Lee

Inspirational, Life, Strength

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Mark Twain

Courage, Fear, Cancer

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Viscott

Life, Motivational, Positive

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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Life, Change, Positive

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

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

Honore de Balzac

Life, Happiness, Courage

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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

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

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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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

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