Courageous Quotes - Page 12

• The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

  Serena Williams

  Strong, Inspiration, Humble

  "Serena Williams Wants Women To Raise Each Other Up". www.justjared.com. November 10, 2015.

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• It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall trajectory of industrial civilization remains relatively unchanged.

  Richard Heinberg

  Civilization, Reuse, Program

  Richard Heinberg (2015). “Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels”, p.65, New Society Publishers

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• Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

  Andy Warhol

  Wish, Way, Action

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• I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

  Thomas Sowell

  Silly, People, Soldier

  "Live: Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Isaac, www.aei.org. January 1, 2004.

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• Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Way, Break

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• The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Book, Writing, Europe

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• Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.160, e-artnow

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• I don't feel particularly courageous.

  Hillary Clinton

  Feels

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times... Courageous action is humanity at its finest.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Helping Others, Hard Times, Humanity

  Robert Biswas-Diener (2012). “The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver”, p.148, John Wiley & Sons

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• Well, Kevin Downes is the producer of Mom's Night Out. He was a fellow actor with me in the movie Courageous. He plays my police partner and we have been friends for several years. He came and helped me on Courageous and said 'Would you come help me on Mom's Night Out?'

  Alex Kendrick

  Mom, Night, Years

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Of course, Jesus was the most courageous man who ever lived. He prayed and asked God to take the cup from Him before He went to the cross, but He still went because He knew that's what He was supposed to do.

  Matt Cullen

  Jesus, Men, Courageous Man

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Courageous people are not afraid to fail. So often in life and in sports, we're afraid to fail. Instead, we should attack things with excitement and enthusiasm and think about the positives as opposed to the negatives.

  Matt Cullen

  Sports, Thinking, People

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.

  Samuel Smiles

  Real, Men, Effort

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• The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

  Richard Rohr

  Reality, Bears, Mystery

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• Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.

  Norm MacDonald

  Uncles, Lying, Men

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• Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to go there and invest on this scale - I went there maybe 20 times - it's also been also super-controversial. There's an old school of thought that somebody like me has no place to go there.Because of colonialism and so on.

  Rem Koolhaas

  School, Careers, Colonialism

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.

  John Densmore

  Talking, Levels, Firsts

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• Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

  Kevin Spacey

  Unique, Men, Actors

  "Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey snaps at theatre-goer after mobile phone rings during performance" by Anthony Bond, www.mirror.co.uk. June 04, 2014.

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• By the time the Deputy Minister presents a matter for decision to cabinet, he or she tends to present three options: ' the unacceptable', 'the politically courageous', and 'the bureaucrat-preferred' options. As such, it is usually best to get down into the department to the person doing the first drafts of any policy.

  Don Johnston

  Decision, Three, Matter

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• One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.

  Kristen Stewart

  Struggle, Adults, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• When we’re courageous enough to be with what scares us, we can awaken our intuition and
  create a new path for healing.

  Kris Carr

  Healing, Intuition, Scare

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Apr 10, 2014

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• The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

  Dennis Rainey

  Men, Done, He Man

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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, Enough

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

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• Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that he's strong, courageous and shows vulnerability. He asks some very poignant questions in his music and is still very melodic. The harmony and the melody of the music allows you to also come in closer.

  MC Hammer

  Strong, Rapper, Matter

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• ... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Home, Writing

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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