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Quotes about Courage

You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
My nerves tingled with the sense of adventure. Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver, and, walking swiftly up the door, I looked in.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
— Winston Churchill
Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability
— Soren Kierkegaard
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
— George Eliot
I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.
— Harry S. Truman
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.
— Henri Nouwen
The depth of our belief in the Resurrection and the Atonement of the Savior will, I believe, determine the measure of courage and purpose with which we meet life's challenges.
— James Faust
There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
— Alice Walker