quotations about courage
My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.
JENNA JAMESON
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Esquire, Aug. 2008
It is easier to die bravely than to live so.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The Great North Road
Courage is when you make a change,
And you keep on living anyway
You keep on moving anyway
You keep on giving anyway
ORIANTHI
"Courage", Believe (II)
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
journal entry, 1859
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
ARCHIBALD PRENTICE
Prenticeana
Courage is the only asset
That will conquer in the fight
If you have the will to mass it
On the lines of truth and right.
JACK CRAWFORD
"The Harvest"
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Woman's Day, Apr. 1, 2009
Our hearts must have the courage
To keep on marching on and on
THE ALARM
"Declaration"
Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don't run away when things are tough. It means you don't turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion.... There's a lot of people who won't wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what's honorable and decent.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
Academy of Achievement interview, Jun. 2, 1995
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"Courage,", Counsels by the Way
Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Corrino
The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The Second Neurotic's Notebook
There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.
L. FRANK BAUM
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
DAN SIMMONS
Endymion
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
AESOP
"The Wolf and the Kid,", Aesop's Fables
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Everyone became brave from excess of terror.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Salammbo
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
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
MARY ANNE RADMACHER
attributed, Never Take No for an Answer: One Woman, One Life, and The Money Mystique