26 Great Quotes About Courage
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From those with great courage, and those who know courage when they see it in others, here are twenty-six great quotes about courage...If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
--Lawana Blackwell
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
--Anais Nin
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
--E. M. Forster
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
--Clare Booth Luce
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
--Euripides
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
--Dorothy Bernard
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
--Cicero
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
--Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
--Harold Wilson
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
--Harper Lee
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
--Jean Paul Richter
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
--John Quincy Adams
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
--John Wayne
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
--Corra Harris
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
--Thomas Fuller
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain
Fortune favors the brave.
--Virgil
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
--Menander
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
--Mignon McLaughlin
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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