599 private quotes tagged courage

“Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“You have to have courage to be obedient to God.” — Charles Stanley

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“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.” — J. D. Salinger

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“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” — Ovid

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“The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.” — Joseph Conrad

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“Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.” — Tommy Douglas

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“Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.” — Eddie Rickenbacker

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“Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.” — Peter Ustinov

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“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” — Robert Anthony

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“Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” — James Allen

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“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.” — Miguel de Cervantes

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“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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“Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.” — Wendell Phillips

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“While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.” — Al Gore

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“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” — Jonas Salk

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“There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.” — Bill Hunter

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“Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.” — Alexandre Vinet

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“There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.” — Patrick Campbell

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“I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.” — Dame Edith Evans

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“You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.” — William Boetcker

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“In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.” — Oriana Fallaci

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“No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.” — Ed Koch

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