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• Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Mind, Important, Finals

  Zbigniew Herbert (1977). “Selected poems”

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• You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Unhappy

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• Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they aren’t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Optimistic, Impact, People

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• There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, Courage, Long

  "Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Someone Has to Be Courageous Enough to Actually Stand Up to The Bullies’" by Nathaniel Botwinick, www.nationalreview.com. February 12, 2013.

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• To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Art, Gay

  "From Grandmother with Love". Book by Becky Kelly and Patrick Regan, 2005.

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• Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Courageous, Injustice

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• Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Courageous

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.268, Xist Publishing

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• The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

  George Lois

  Creative, Courageous, Trouble

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• The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to be courageous in facing any corrupt power, injustice and oppression. Unfortunately, colonial powers pushed an agenda by using Sufism against resistance, and some ulama played that game in the past and in the present.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Heart, Past

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• If you can change your mind, you can change the world. Before you can be creative, you must be courageous. Creativity is the destination, but courage is the journey.

  Joey Reiman

  Creativity, Journey, Creative

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• We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how Earl Nightingale saw it. He said the opposite of courage was not cowardness, it was conformity. The next time you are encouraged to fall into line, to be a sport and everything in you says no - be courageous and go your own way. There is no compensation in conformity.

  Bob Proctor

  Sports, Fall, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 05, 2011

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• I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

  Ruben Santiago-Hudson

  Humanity, Research, Courageous

  "Q&A - Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lt. Charles Dawson)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

  Audre Lorde

  Firsts, Littles, Courageous

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• Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Principles, Courageous, Individual

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Fall, Stronger

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• Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.

  David Whyte

  Community, Heartfelt, Courageous

  FaceBook post by David Whyte from Jun 14, 2012

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• Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

  Maya Angelou

  Proud, Courageous, Walks

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• My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

  Anton Chekhov

  Business, Thinking, Artist

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• Always be courageous and strong, & don't fear. You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

  Gabby Douglas

  Strong, Courageous, Beast

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• We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

  Lech Walesa

  Wisdom, Fun, Fall

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• There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

  David Letterman

  Courage, Real, Believe

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• What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.

  Kay Arthur

  Strong, Matter, Steps

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• To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

  Tariq Ramadan

  Voice, Voiceless, Courageous

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• One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself!

  Shigesato Itoi

  Believe, Goal, Tough

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• Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!

  Rajneesh

  Life, Encounters, Courageous

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