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Courage

Have the courage to act instead of react. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth. – Margaret Walker

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? – Virgil

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

You have to have courage to be obedient to God. – Charles Stanley

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. – Ovid

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. – Amelia Earhart

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

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

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. – Plautus

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

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. – Christopher Morley

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. – Robert Anthony

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. – Baltasar Gracian

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

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

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. – Wendell Phillips

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

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