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Courage: Your Strongest Weapon

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

What does it take to go against social norms? What does it take to challenge the wrong, to swim against the tide, and to stand for what is right? Courage is a virtue of the brave. It gives one the strength to move mountains. However, courage must never walk alone. It must be supplemented with wisdom. One must clearly comprehend what one needs to overcome. Find your courage in these quotes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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

Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Paulo Coelho
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Mignon McLaughlin
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.

John F. Kennedy
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Plato
Courage is knowing what not to fear.

G. K. Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Aesop
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Menander
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Cicero
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Euripides
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Confucius
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Aristotle
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

George Bernard Shaw
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself.

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