Courage Quotations And Sayings

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“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.”
– Horace

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
– J.K. Rowling

“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face.
– J.M. Barrie

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
– Jacqueline Bisset

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
– Jacqueline Bisset

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
– Jane Austen

“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”
– Jesse Jackson

“A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my heroes.”
– Jim Butcher

“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”
– Jim Hightower

“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Some people have more guts than brains.”
– John Grisham

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
– John Quincy Adams

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.”
– John Steinbeck

“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”
– John Stuart Mill

“Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.”
– John Wayne

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
– John Wayne

“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
– John Wooden

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce

“Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.”
– Joseph Smith, Jr.

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
– Joseph Stalin

“Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if…
– Julia Cameron

“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”
– Justin Cronin

“Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.”
– Karl Von Clausewitz

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