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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Unknown

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

John Anthony Ciardi

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

Eddie Rickenbacker

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

Alfred Adler

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Maxwell Maltz

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Paul E. Pfuetze

Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.

Joseph Addison

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Agesilaus the Second

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Delmore Schwartz

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Missy Good

Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you.

Harper Lee

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Carl Hermann Voss

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Earl Nightingale

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Paula Giddings

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Alvaro de Solva

It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

Anna Lappe

Courage is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working maybe I should try something else.

Anonymous

By courage I repel adversity.

Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Carl Sandburg

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Thomas Jefferson

One man with courage is a majority.

La Rochefoucauld

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Benjamin Franklin

Without justice courage is weak.

Vincent Van Gogh

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything

Leo C. Rosten

Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....

Harold Wilson

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Vicki Baum

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Van Wyck Brooks

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Raymond Lindquist

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Maya Angelou

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Ren G. Torres

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Charles Luckman

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Erma Bombeck

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

One man with courage makes a majority.

Baltasar Gracian

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Julie Arabi

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Euripides

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Mignon McLaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Hellen Keller

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Walt Disney

All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them.

Mary Bertone

But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

Jewish Proverb

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jim Davis

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of c

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

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

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

What a new face courage puts on everything.

Courage conquers all things.

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

Courage mounteth with occasion.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

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

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

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

Courage in danger is half the battle.

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.