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Courage Quotes

Posted on March 3, 2010March 3, 2010 by

– “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “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
– “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
– “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

– “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou

– “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein

– “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan

– “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan

– “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

– “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

– “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

– “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

– “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

– “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

– “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare

– “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis

– “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy

Ronald Reagan Quotes

Posted on February 10, 2010February 10, 2010 by

– “A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
– “A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?”
– “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”
– “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
– “All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
– “Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”

– “Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.”

– “But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”

– “Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”

– “Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

– “Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”

– “Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.”

– “Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”

– “Facts are stubborn things.”

– “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

– “Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

– “Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.”

– “Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”

– “Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”

– “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”