Courage Quotes IV

COURAGE QUOTES IV

quotations about courage

I can sense it
Something important
Is about to happen
It's coming up
It takes courage to enjoy it
The hardcore and the gentle

BJÖRK

"Big Time Sensuality"

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Many people wrongly exclude fear from the definition of courage, believing that courage is the absence of fear. Every time such people feel afraid, they assume that they aren't courageous. The reality, though, is that courage is fearful. When we are acting courageously, we are, most typically, very afraid. But we don't allow the fear we're carrying to stop us. Instead, we press on. This is the signature feature of courage: to carry on despite being fearful. Fear, thus, is an essential element in the definition of courage. You can't be courageous unless you are afraid.

BILL TREASURER

Courage Goes to Work

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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

KARLE WILSON BAKER

Dreamers on Horseback

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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

ROBERT FROST

"For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration"

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'Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

JOHN ARMSTRONG

The Art of Preserving Health

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Orthodoxy

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Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

DEBORAH COLLINS

This Is Not the Life I Ordered

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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

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The courage with which we have met past dangers is often our best security in the present.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles,", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

J.M. BARRIE

speech, May 3, 1922

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Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Salammbo

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I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

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Courage is caution overcome.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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The skin of the coward changes color all the time,
he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still,
he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot,
his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs,
his teeth chattering -- he dreads some grisly death.
But the skin of the brave soldier never blanches.

HOMER

The Iliad

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Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

SENECA

Hercules Oetaeus

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

JOHN WAYNE

Reader's Digest, 1986

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.