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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Socrates

Philosopher · Greek

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

Marvin Olasky

Educator · American · b. 1950

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Statesman · Roman

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Writer · American

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Paul Tillich

Theologian · German · 1886 – 1965

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul

Author · German · 1763 – 1825

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Historian · American · 1914 – 2004

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Albert Camus

Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

J. K. Rowling

Author · English · b. 1965

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

John Steinbeck

Author · American · 1902 – 1968

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

Tadao Ando

Architect · Japanese · b. 1941

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Cartoonist · American · 1901 – 1966

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

Erma Bombeck

Journalist · American · 1927 – 1996

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

Walt Disney

Cartoonist · American · 1901 – 1966

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lawyer · American · 1833 – 1899

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

Xun Zi

Philosopher · Chinese

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer · Scottish · 1850 – 1894

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Theodore White

Journalist · American · 1915 – 1986

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Gerry Adams

Politician · Irish · b. 1948

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

Charles Stanley

Clergyman · American · b. 1932

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Journalist · American · 1913 – 1983

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan P. Smith

Writer · American

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Thomas Merton

Author · American · 1915 – 1968

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer · Scottish · 1850 – 1894

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Mignon McLaughlin

Journalist · American · 1913 – 1983

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Victor Hugo

Author · French · 1802 – 1885

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Philosopher · Greek

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Les Brown

Businessman · American

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

Jean Anouilh

Playwright · French · 1910 – 1987

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

Pierre Corneille

Dramatist · French · 1606 – 1684

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

E. M. Forster

Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

Activist · American · 1811 – 1884

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet · Indian · 1861 – 1941

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Confucius

Philosopher · Chinese

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Novelist · French · 1844 – 1924

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet · German · 1875 – 1926

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady · American · 1884 – 1962

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

Muhammad Iqbal

Poet · Pakistani · 1877 – 1938

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Novelist · American · b. 1942

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Writer · American · 1906 – 2001

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Andrew Jackson

President · American · 1767 – 1845

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

Edward Everett

Statesman · American · 1794 – 1865

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Jim Hightower

Activist · American · b. 1943

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Chief Joseph

Leader · d. 1904

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Omar N. Bradley

Soldier · American · 1893 – 1981

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

Hermann Hesse

Novelist · German · 1877 – 1962

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Mignon McLaughlin

Journalist · American · 1913 – 1983

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