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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Muhammad Ali

You can't test courage cautiously.

Anne Dillard

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Edward Estlin Cummings

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph W. Sockman

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

John Petit-Senn

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Oliver J. Hart

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

Joseph Addison

It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.

Owen D. Young

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

English Euripides

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoleon I

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Mark Twain

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

G. K. Chesterton

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Oliver J. Hart

It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.

Owen D. Young

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Helen Blavatsky

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