“Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.”
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Martin Luther King
11 quotes“If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
Sir Winston Churchill
9 quotes“So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me...”
Erica Jong
8 quotes“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
Plautus
7 quotes“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage compri...”
Veronica Roth
7 quotes“Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.”
Seneca
6 quotes“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
Brené Brown
6 quotes“Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.”
Audre Lorde
6 quotes“When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
6 quotes“Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.”
Cervantes
6 quotes“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.”
Napoleon
6 quotes“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.”
Plutarch
5 quotes“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”