

Courage Quotes

General George Patton

"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it."
Mark Twain

"The fearless are merely fearless, those who act in spite of their fear are truly brave."
James A. Lafond-Lewis

"Definition of courage: Grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway

"Pressure makes diamonds."
General George Patton

"Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them."
Brendan Francis

"Courage consists of the power of self-recovery."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage is rarely reckless or foolish. Courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced."
Margaret Truman

Mingnon McLaughlin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin

Vincent Van Gogh

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads."
Erica Jong

Erma Bombeck

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a [person] does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence."
Albert Einstein

"I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage. What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you."
Paula Giddings

"Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Have courage to use your own understanding!"
Immanuel Kant

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny."
Peter Senge

B. C. Forbes

"The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."
Charles Schwab

"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement."
George Adams

William Arthur Ward

Abraham Lincoln

Booker T. Washington

"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage."
Samuel Johnson

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."
Corra Harris

Rosalyn Sussman

Mary Tyler Moore

Eleanor Roosevelt

"All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood."
General George Patton

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