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Quotes About Courage
Courage is not limited to dramatic moments. It also appears in honest speech, patient recovery, principled decisions and the willingness to act while uncertainty remains.
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
— Winston Churchill
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
— George R.R. Martin
“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
— Ovid
“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
— Charles Dickens
“Power comes in response to a need, not a desire. You have to create that need.”
— Goku
“Technology is teaching us to be human again.”
— Simon Mainwaring
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
— Francis de Sales
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
— Albert Einstein
“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.”
— Jane Addams
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
— Nora Ephron
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“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.”
— Nelson Mandela
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.”
— Unknown
“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”
— Tom Brokaw
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— Christopher Columbus
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
— Maya Angelou
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
— Laozi
“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Authors to explore
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- Maya Angelou Poet, memoirist and civil rights activist
- Martin Luther King Jr. American minister and civil rights leader
- Marcus Aurelius Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher
- Virginia Woolf English novelist, essayist and publisher
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