Quotes and Sayings About Courage
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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
-- Aaron Hill -
None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He dares confront the time, And speak the truth, and give the world no rest No kingly threat can cowardize his breath, He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death.
-- Abraham ColesSource : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
-- AesopSource : Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
-- Albert Camus -
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
-- Albert Einstein -
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
-- Albert Einstein -
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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
-- Alberto Salazar -
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
-- Aleister Crowley -
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
-- Alex KarrasSource : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
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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 to the other by forgiving it.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
-- Alfred AdlerSource : In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
-- Alfred North WhiteheadSource : Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher
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There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
-- Alfred P. SloanSource : Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”
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To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.
-- Alice Dalgliesh -
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.
-- Alistair MacleanSource : ALISTAIR MACLEAN (1956). “THE GUNS OF NAVARONE”
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If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.
-- Alvin Rosenfeld -
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
-- Amelia Earhart -
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
-- Amelia Earhart -
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As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre NortonSource : Andre Norton (1981). “Gryphon in glory”, Atheneum Books
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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else....
-- Andrew Jenson -
You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.
-- Andy Gilbert -
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Our response to an event is more important than the event itself.
-- Angeles Arrien -
Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
-- Anita Roddick