Courage Quotes

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Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others,… — Daphne du Maurier
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only… — Howard Zinn
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young… — Doris Lessing
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we… — Wilferd Peterson
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior… — Alexander Pope
Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so. — John F. Kennedy
The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense. — Winston Churchill
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation… — John Ciardi
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface. — Mahatma Gandhi
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. — Albert Einstein
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. — Joseph Conrad
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. — Samuel Johnson
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out. — Arthur Koestler
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we… — Cesar Chavez
Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound. — Ben Jonson
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think… — Joan Benoit
And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving… — Ronald Reagan

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