Courage

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared, and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. From this knowledge comes an inner strength that subconsciously inspires us to push on in the face of great difficulty. What can seem impossible is often possible, with courage.

"What the superior man seeks is in himself: what the small man seeks is in others"
Francois La Rochefoucauld

"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage"
Richard Lovelace

"Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small"
Orison Swett Marden

"Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them"
Washington Irving

"True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable"
Jeremy Collier

"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined"
Leo Rosten

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance"
Bruce Barton

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
Mark Twain

"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.""
Ann Landers

"This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?"
Orison Swett Marden

"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses courage loses all."
Cervantes

"The scars you acquire by exercising courage will never make you feel inferior."
D.A. Battista

"One man with courage is a majority."
Andrew Jackson

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience which you must stop and look fear in the face . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
Eddie Rickenbacker

"All of the significant battles are waged within the self."
Sheldon Kopp

"Success is never final, and failure is never fatal; it's courage that counts."
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