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Tag Tag Courage
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller The Open Door · 1957

Quotes

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt · First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 · Primary source

“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.”

Amelia Earhart · 20 Hrs. 40 Min., 1928 · Primary source

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929 · Primary source

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

Steve Jobs · Stanford Commencement Address, 2005 · Primary source

“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 no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; 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 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 · Citizenship in a Republic, 1910 · Primary source

“You only live twice:
Once when you’re born,
Once when you look death in the face.”

Ian Fleming · You Only Live Twice, 1964 · Primary source

“Never say ‘no’ to adventures.”

Ian Fleming · Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, 1964 · Primary source

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

John F. Kennedy · Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy, 1961 · Primary source

“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · Tomorrow is Now, 1963 · Primary source

“As I look back on the flight I think two questions have been asked me most frequently. First: Was I afraid? Secondly: What did I wear?”

Amelia Earhart · 20 Hrs. 40 Min., 1928 · Primary source

“Without justice courage is weak.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Grace under pressure.”

Ernest Hemingway · The Artist’s Reward, 1929 · Secondary source

“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

Ernest Hemingway · The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 · Primary source

“The courage, the unconquerable grit and stamina of our people, showed itself from the very outset. Without that all would have failed. Upon that rock, all stood unshakable.”

Winston Churchill · You do your worst—and we will do our best, 1941 · Primary source

“Without imagination not much can be done.”

Winston Churchill · Never give in, never, 1941 · Primary source

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”

Steve Jobs · Stanford Commencement Address, 2005 · Primary source

“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 gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt · The Strenuous Life, 1900 · Primary source

“You never get real adventures without a bit of risk somewhere.”

Ian Fleming · Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, 1964 · Primary source

“Gibraltar may be strong, but ideas are impregnable, and bestow on the hero their invincibility.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Civilization, 1870 · Primary source

“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”

William Blake · The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790 · Primary source

“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.”

Amelia Earhart · No reliable source

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

Winston Churchill · No reliable source

Works

Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed · 1994
Quiet Strength

A reflective account of Rosa Parks’s faith, values and experiences, and how they shaped her approach to family, hardship and civil rights.

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Ernest Hemingway · 1963
A Man’s Credo

A posthumous collection of Hemingway’s observations on life, writing, love, death, work, character and the standards by which people live.

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