Quotes on Courage
Some more great quotes on courage!
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount" Clare Booth Luce
"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?" Marian Wright Edelman
"If you lose hope - somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving - you lose that courage to be that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all and so today I still have a dream" Martin Luther King Jr
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish" John Quincy Adams
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority - the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority" Ralph W. Sockman
"History - despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived - but if faced with courage need not be lived again" Maya Angelou
"The important thing is to take that first step - bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next" Daisaku Ikeda
"The best way out is always through" Robert Frost
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily - to not dare is to lose oneself" Soren Kierkegaard
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"Whatever you do you need courage - whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong - there are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. - to map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories but it takes brave men and women to win them" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One isn't necessarily born with courage - but one is born with potential - without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency - we can't be kind - true - merciful - generous or honest" Maya Angelou
"Courage without conscience is a wild beast" Robert G. Ingersoll
"Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him - cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?" Robert Coles:
"It is not the critic who counts - not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled - or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood - who strives valiantly - who errs and comes short again and again - who knows the great enthusiasms - the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat" Theodore Roosevelt
"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully - the world and takes him boldly by the beard he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure - to embrace the new - but there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful - there is more security in the adventurous and exciting - for in movement there is life - and in change there is power" Alan Cohen
"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk - the right way is not always the popular and easy way - standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character" Margaret Chase Smith
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