Courage Quotes

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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage… — Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically,… — Maya Angelou
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. — Maya Angelou
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be… — Maya Angelou
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. — Maya Angelou
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. — Maya Angelou
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I… — Maya Angelou
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to… — Maya Angelou
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. — Aesop
The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to… — Joseph Campbell
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. — Jean Anouilh
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. — Jean Anouilh
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? — Marie Antoinette
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. — Thomas Aquinas
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live… — Joan of Arc
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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