Courage Quotes

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. (Thomas Szasz)
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. View quote
André Gide
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. View quote
Bruce Lee
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. View quote
Confucius
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. View quote
Plutarch
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. View quote
Confucius
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. View quote
Aristotle
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. View quote
Harper Lee
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. View quote
Laozi
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. (E. E. Cummings)
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. View quote
Confucius
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them. View quote
Walt Disney
Courage in danger is half the battle. View quote
Plautus
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. View quote
Steve Jobs
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. View quote
Sydney Smith
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. View quote
Mark Twain
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. View quote
John Quincy Adams
Desperate courage makes One a majority. (Andrew Jackson)
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. View quote
André Malraux
The weak in courage is strong in cunning. View quote
William Blake
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
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