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    Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
    "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
    Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
    That the defect; better the more than less;
    Better like Hector in the field to die,
    Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all read more

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.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Courage Quotes,
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and read more

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

by Thucydides Found in: Bravery Quotes, Courage Quotes,
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A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

by Orel Herhiser Found in: Courage Quotes,
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The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble read more

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.

by Joanna Baillie Found in: Courage Quotes,
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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

by John Wayne Found in: Courage Quotes,
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not read more

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

by Mark Twain Found in: Courage Quotes, Cowards Quotes,
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my read more

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.

by Frank Herbert Found in: Courage Quotes,
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to read more

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

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