<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Courage - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are limited by knowledge, not by courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65815]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
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[Proverbs 24:16]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10426]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no substitute for guts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10427]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no substitute for guts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10410]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10416]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10417]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10421]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 no to be feared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10422]]></link><description><![CDATA[In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. [Ruth 1:16].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10423]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10407]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10381]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10388]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair, keep pushing on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair, keep pushing on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - November 11, 1999. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - November 11, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10395]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10397</guid></item></channel></rss>