Courage Quotes - Page 36

• You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

  Jim Rohn

  Creativity, Choices, Creative

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• I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wise, Jobs, Passion

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• Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Using Your Talents, Zest

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• None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart's guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life's true path, but viewing it from a distance.

  Caroline Myss

  Distance, Heart, Confusion

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• A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Needs, World

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• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspiring, Fear, Action

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Love, Spiritual, Light

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• Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Water, Tea

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• Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

  Barbra Streisand

  Fear, Frightened, Bits

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• Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Passion, Earth, Realizing

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• I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace.

  Rosa Parks

  Love, Dream, Inspiration

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• All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Baseball, Hero

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• No mirror ever became iron again;
  No bread ever became wheat;
  No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
  Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
  Become the light.

  Rumi

  Maturity, Light, Iron

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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• A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Needs, Bail

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• This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

  Euripides

  Inspiration, Men, Heaven

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Bravery

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

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• I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

  Brené Brown

  Compassion, Connections

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press

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• If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Respect, Adversity, Humanity

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• Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

  Winston Churchill

  Jobs, Giving, President

  Speech on radio, 9 Feb. 1941, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 6, p. 6350

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• You have to be tough.

  Mike Ditka

  Tough, Toughness

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• You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

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• When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Laughter, People

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• When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

  Dan Millman

  Success, Running, Wisdom

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.85, H J Kramer

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• A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Warrior, Power

  Carlos Castaneda (1974). “Tales of Power”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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