Courageous Quotes

• May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

  Bob Dylan

  Strong, Growing Up, Light

  Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

  Michael Scott

  Strong, Triumph

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  Erich Fromm

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Do the right thing because it is right.

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

  Aristotle

  Ambition, Exercise, Self

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  Haile Selassie

  Courage, Men, Race

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Courage, Have Faith

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• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Men

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• For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Roles, Steps, Helping

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• Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Warrior, Enemy

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• I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

  Ben Gazzara

  Art, Awards, Cinema

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• Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

  Mary Wesley

  Courage, Children, Husband

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspaper should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

  Hugo Black

  New York, Father, Views

  "Supreme Court, 6-3, Upholds Newspapers on Publication of Pentagon Report". archive.nytimes.com. July 1, 1971.

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• We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

  Jane D. Hull

  September 11, Events, Our Actions

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• Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

  Billy Graham

  Courage, Angel, Godly

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

  Ashleigh Banfield

  War, Fighting, Endeavor

  "Even Paranoids Have Enemies" by Norman Horowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2007.

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• A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

  Donella Meadows

  Environmental, President, Climate

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• A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

  Edmond Rostand

  Witty, Men, Noses

  'Cyrano de Bergerac' (1897) act 1, sc. 1

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• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

  Carl Levin

  Iraq, September 11, Enemy

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• When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Friendship, Warrior, Honor

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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