Courage Quotes - Page 6

• It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Recovery, Army

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• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Our Veterans

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Names, Everyday, Noble

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• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

  August Wilson

  Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness

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• When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Fear, Moving Up

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• You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Strength, Dream, Being Yourself

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• Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Drama, Sadness

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Destiny, Evil

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

  Dorothy Day

  Love, Hope, Peace

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• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Time, Motivation

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• The world has no room for cowards.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Coward, World, Rooms

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1905). “Works”

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• Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouraging, Bravery, African American

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2016

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• Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

  Ayn Rand

  Choices Made, Bravery, Serenity

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.34, Penguin

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• It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dream, Kindness, Adventure

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• He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

  Socrates

  Life, Change, Strength

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  In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Thank You, Memorial Day

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Travel, Night

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  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Time

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

  Dorothy Bernard

  Inspiring, Fear, Prayer

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• True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

  Simon Sinek

  Strength, Being Strong, Weakness

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2012

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• Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Positive, Leadership, Wisdom

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• As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

  Andre Norton

  Lying, Inspiration, Trials

  Andre Norton (1981). “Gryphon in glory”, Atheneum Books

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• To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

  Meg Cabot

  Stay Strong, Business, Black And White

  "The Princess Diaries". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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