Courageous Quotes - Page 17

• Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

  Kathy Bates

  Cancer, Thinking, People

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• One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple does not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

  Gay Hendricks

  Marriage, Couple, Creative

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• If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  War, Thinking, Land

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• With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

  H. G. Wells

  Wine, Wife, Degrees

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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• You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous!

  Gabby Douglas

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, High School Graduation

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• There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hope, Creativity, Age

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.520, Psychology Press

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• Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

  Phillips Brooks

  Courage, Independent, Independence

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Country, Baby, Fighting

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• Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Happiness, Two, People

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.648, St. Martin's Griffin

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• All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Block

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• Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mean, Humility, Humble

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.

  Hyman Rickover

  Leadership, Practice, Ideas

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• Lots of people misunderstand this. They think not experiencing fear means they're courageous. Bravery isn't about not being afraid, it's about persevering despite your fears.

  Kim Du-han

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

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• We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

  David Seabury

  Have Faith, Action, Never Fear

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• The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friends, Honesty, Generosity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

  Isabel Allende

  Inspiring, Children, Women

  "Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2008.

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• Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

  James T. Conway

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

  Tom Kundig

  Badass, Home, Mean

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• If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you must be willing to show the world all of who you are. You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

  Debbie Ford

  Life, Order, Light

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• Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one's advantage to be a little less than truthful, which makes one courageous when faced with great obstacles and which endows one with the firmness of' wise self-discipline.

  Arthur S. Adams

  Wise, Character, Self

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• There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Men, Tablets

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• There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Morning, Flower

  "What's Wrong With the World". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Strong, Venture, Dare

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.116, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic.

  Tina Modotti

  Religious, Believe, Eye

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