Quotes: Courage

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I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Major Taylor

American racing cyclist (1878-1932)

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Omar Bongo

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

American Protestant theologian (1892-1971)

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential… it’s no different in the financial realm.

Suze Orman

American author, television personality, motivational speaker, businesswoman, investor

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anais Nin

writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon

English historian and politician (1737-1794)

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918-2013)

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

British priest and writer

Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Jim Davis

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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