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| Gud ge mig sinnesro att acceptera det jag inte kan förändra, mod att förändra det jag kan och förstånd att inse skillnaden. | Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) |
| Jag lärde mig att mod inte var frånvaro av rädsla, utan triumfen över den. Den modiga mannen är inte den som inte är rädd, utan den som övervinner rädslan. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| Kreativitet kräver mod. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| Kurage ligger ett steg före rädsla. | Coleman Young (1918-1997) |
| Provet på mod kommer när vi är i minoritet. Provet på tolerans kommer när vi är i majoritet. | Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970) |
| Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. | Alice M. Swaim |
| Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. | Ambrose Redmoon |
| Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. | Ambrose Redmoon |
| Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. | Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) |
| One person with courage makes a majority. | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| One man with courage makes a majority. | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. | Charles Kennedy |
| Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage. | Charles Luckman |
| Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair. | Charles Palmer (1919-) |
| Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. | David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) |
| Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain | Diane de Pointiers |
| Courage is fear that has said its prayers. | Dorothy Bernard (1890-) |
| Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. | Douglas Malloch |
| Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. | Dr. Robert Anthony |
| Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. | Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973) |
| You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. | Epicurus |
| All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. | George Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Another word for creativity is courage | George Prince |
| I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home. | Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515) |
| Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. | Henry H. Tweedy |
| There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess | Henry Tuckerman |
| It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance | Hipponax the Satirist |
| Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. | Horace Smith (1913-1986) |
| To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. | Janeane Garofalo (1964-) |
| Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. | Jewel Kilcher (1974-) |
| He was not afraid. He jumped up on the table with a smile and said he was ready for the rocket to take off so he could finally go home-and he did. | Jim Mattox |
| Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway | John Wayne (1907-1979) |
| Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. | Kurt Goldstein |
| Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined | Leo Rosten (1908-1997) |
| Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you... | Mariah Carey (1970-) |
| Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." | Mary Anne Radmacher |
| Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. | Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) |
| Optimism is the foundation of courage. | Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) |
| Cheer up, the worst is yet to come | Philander Johnson (1866-1939) |
| Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. | Raymond Lindquist |
| Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. | Robert Cody |
| It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. | Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) |
| He who is brave is free. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. | Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803) |
| A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. | William Shedd |
| Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues. | William Temple, Sr. |
| People don't follow titles, they follow courage. | William Wells Brown |
| Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all. | Ann Morrow Lindbergh |
| You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. | Arthur Koestler (1905-1938) |
| It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it. | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) |
| 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 (1780-1832) |
| Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. | Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) |
| Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| 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 not to be feared | David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) |
| Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th | Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) |
| You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Courage is grace under pressure. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things | Jacques Maritain (1882-) |
| A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. | James A. Garfield (1831-1881) |
| When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage | Jewish Proverb |
| Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. | Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) |
| If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs. | Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) |
| Necessity does the work of courage. | Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) |
| Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own good | Pablo Casals (1876-1973) |
| The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable | Paul Tillich (1886-1965) |
| The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. | St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) |
| To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. | St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) |
| The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. | W. Clement Stone (1902-2002) |
| Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." | Mary Anne Radmacher |
| I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. | Raymond Lindquist |
| Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. | Jewel Kilcher (1974-) |
| Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. | Jewel Kilcher (1974-) |
| Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. | Janeane Garofalo (1964-) |
| Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. | Robert Cody |
| Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. | W. Clement Stone (1902-2002) |
| Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. | Charles Kennedy |
| If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. | Alex Karras (1935-) |
| Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. | Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) |
| Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear. | Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) |
| Desperate courage makes One a majority. | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing. | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. | Atticus Finch |
| Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. | August Wilson (1945-2005) |
| Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Without justice, courage is weak. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe . . . nor as utterly fabulous on the screen. | Billy Wilder (1906-2002) |
| Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood. | Charles Swindoll |
| My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. | Clay Aiken (1978-) |
| Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. | Dan Rather (1931-) |
| Courage is fear that has said its prayers. | Dorothy Bernard (1890-) |
| Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. | Earl Wilson (1907-1987) |
| Do one thing everyday that scares you. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. | Graham Greene (1904-1991) |
| There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess | Henry Tuckerman |
| I have suffered much from waves and wars, and now let this trial join the rest. | Homer J. Simpson (1955-) |
| One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the person ready to die | Italian Proverb |
| Courage is found in unlikely places. | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. | James A. Michener (1907-) |
| Courage is the thing; all goes if courage goes | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. | Jesse Jackson (1941-) |
| In the world you will have trouble but take courage for I have conquered the world. | Jesus Christ |
| Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames! | Joan of Arc (1412-1431) |
| He who moves not forward, goes backward | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. | John C. Maxwell |
| None but the brave deserves the fair. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. | John Maxwell (1512-1583) |
| Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. | Kate Chopin (1851-1904) |
| From caring comes courage | Lao Tzu |
| Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| A man of courage is also full of faith. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. | Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) |
| It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Courage allows the successful woman to fail-and learn powerful lessons-from the failure-so that in the end,she didn't fail at all. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate. | Meredith Grey |
| Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next | Mignon McLaughlin (1915-) |
| Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| 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 (1918-2013) |
| Courage conquers all things | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| Courage conquers all things, it even gives strength to the body | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. | Pam Brown |
| Courage is a kind of salvation. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Courage is knowing what not to fear. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. | Reggie White (1961-) |
| Courage without conscience is a wild beast. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. | Roger von Oech |
| The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. | Rollo May (1909-1994) |
| The key to change... is to let go of fear. | Rosanne Cash (1955-) |
| Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| Courage easily finds its own eloquence. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. | Tori Amos (1963-) |
| I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it. | Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) |
| [If this call is neglected] I am determined to sustain myself for as long as possible, and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. | William Barrett Travis (1809-1836) |
| But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Who can be patient in extremes? | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. | William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) |
| Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Without courage all virtues lose their meaning. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |