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Quotes of Courage

Stand Tall With These Quotes of Courage

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A courageous person is one who stands tall in times of adversity. She is someone who follows her convictions. You need a great deal of courage to reattempt a task after initial failure. Each time I read some quotes of courage I feel a surge of confidence that makes me feel that there is nothing I cannot do. Often, when problems loom large, I have found that reading some of these quotes of courage gives me renewed hope and a fresh perspective.

Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Andrew Jackson
One man with courage makes a majority.

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

Erma Bombeck
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

Robert G. Ingersoll
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had enough individuality and courage to stand by his own convictions.

Anonymous
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

Anonymous
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Anonymous
True courage is not the absence of fear -- but the willingness to proceed in spite of it.

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