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Courage

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

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

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. – Earl Nightingale

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause. – Plutarch

Genius is talent set on fire by courage. – Henry Van Dyke

Despair gives courage to a coward. – Thomas Fuller

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. – Samuel Johnson

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. – E. M. Forster

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. – Plutarch

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

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. – Euripides

Political courage is not political suicide. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. – Virginia Woolf

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not. – David Seabury

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. – Michel de Montaigne

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

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. – John Stuart Mill

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster. – Catherine the Great

The more wit the less courage. – Thomas Fuller