“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
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“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
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“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”
“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
“I would kiss you, had I the courage.”
“Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.”
“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.”
“Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
“Courage is a kind of salvation.”
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”