Courage quotes

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

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."George Washington

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"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all."Miguel de Cervantes


"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!"Horace


"It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone."Marion Woodman


"I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice."Leon Blum


"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."Alfred North Whitehead


"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."Gloria Steinem


"Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its sorrows, is good; that everything is meaningful, even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow."Dorothy Thompson


"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them."D. H. Lawrence


"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."Raymond Lindquist
"Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction."Julian Weber Gordon


"Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence."Dr. Kurt Goldstein


"This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."Euripides


"Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment."Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage quotes by Winston Churchill

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."Winston Churchill


"Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others."Winston Churchill


"To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that."Teresa of Avila

Courage quote by the late, great John Wayne

"Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway."John Wayne


"Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment."Winifred Gordon


"We must have the courage to be happy."Henri Frederic Amiel


"All happiness depends on courage and work."Honore de Balzac


"Courage in danger is half the battle."Plautus


"Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live."Conte Vittorio Alfieri


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


"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."Marcus Annaeus Seneca


"It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove."Owen D. Young


"Have the courage of your desire."George R. Gissing

Courage quote by one of our greatest thinkers

"To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage."Confucius


"Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom."German proverb


"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air."John Quincy Adams


"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"Vincent van Gogh


"You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor."Ralph J. Bunche


"Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear."Stuart Walker

Courage quote from a Greek philosopher

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."Plato


"Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears."Arthur Koestler


"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."Eddie Rickenbacker


"Optimism is the foundation of courage."Nicholas Murray Butler


"Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams."Alice Walker


"Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation."Nigel Dennis

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