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Courage Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed…
- So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we…
- The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
- The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity…
- Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
- What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- We should impart our courage and not our despair.
- The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
- However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as…
- Marching is when the pulse ofthe hero beats in unison with the pulse of Nature, and he steps to the measure of the universe; then…
More Courage Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. — Teresa of Avila
- Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez