Courage Quotes IV

COURAGE QUOTES IV

quotations about courage

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

DAN SIMMONS

Endymion

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Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

CLARE BOOTHE LUCE

attributed, Women Know Everything!

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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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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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Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Salammbo

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

JOHN WAYNE

Reader's Digest, 1986

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Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

SENECA

Hercules Oetaeus

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

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Winston Churchill's Great Quotation Book: From Alamein to Zest for Life

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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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This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

VICTORIA LINCOLN

Vogue, Oct. 1, 1952

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Society and Solitude

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True courage…has so little to do with Anger, that there lies always the strongest Suspicion against it, where this Passion is highest. The true Courage is the cool and calm. The bravest of Men have the least of a brutal bullying Insolence; and in the very time of Danger are found the most serene, pleasant, and free. Rage, we know, can make a Coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in Fury, or Anger, can never be plac'd to the account of Courage.

ANTHONY ASHLEY-COOPER

Characteristics of Men

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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

KARLE WILSON BAKER

Dreamers on Horseback

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I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.

ERIC ROTH

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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Better to die on your feet than on your knees.