Life Quotes... Courage Quotes

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
                                                C. S. Lewis

“Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated.  You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
                                                David Lloyd George

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it is the size of the fight in the dog.”
                                                Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Have the courage to act instead of react.”
                                                Earlene Larson Jenks

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
                                                Ernest Hemingway

“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.”
                                                Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“No one can prove his courage when he has never been in danger.”
                                                Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.”
                                                Joseph Conrad

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
                                                Mark Twain

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“If blood be shed, let it be our blood.  Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing.  For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.”
                                                Mohandas K. Gandhi

“Fear always springs from ignorance.”
                                                Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Courage is very important.  Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”
                                                Ruth Gordon

“It is a brave act of valor to condemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.”
                                                Thomas Browne

“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
                                                Thomas Fuller

“But screw your courage to the sticking place, and you'll not fail.”
                                                William Shakespeare

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”

I hope you have enjoyed these courage quotes, and that they have indeed provided inspiration for you. Let's face our challenges in life with gusto!

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