courage Quotes

“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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“Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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“History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

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“Go back? . . . No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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“Like so many cold, weak people, when faced at last by the incontrovertible disaster she exhumed from somewhere a sort of fortitude, strength.”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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“Of all the train none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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