Quotes about Courage

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Rash men wish for dangers beforehand but draw back when they are in them. Brave men are excited at the moment of action, but collected beforehand.

Confidence is characteristic of a person of hope

He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.