Real Courage Quotes

• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.

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• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

  Alan Cohen

  Life, Change, Meaningful

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

  Harper Lee

  Courage, Real, Gun

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

  Alan Cohen

  Meaningful, Courage, Real

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

  J. C. Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Honesty

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• Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

  Carolyn Hax

  Wisdom, Real, Opportunity

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Advice Columnist Tackles Your Problems". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. August 7, 2009.

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• Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

  Cory Booker

  Graduation, Real, Voice

  "Most of all, be kind, Newark Mayor Cory Booker tells seniors at Class Day" by Susan Gonzalez, news.yale.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Real, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10167, Delphi Classics

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• The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Art, Real

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• Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

  Christopher Paolini

  Courage, Real, Believe

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.243, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

  Napoleon Hill

  Real, Adversity, Hours

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.120, Jaico Publishing House

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• Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win.  What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

  Matthew Polly

  Real, Believe, Fighting

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• If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

  Brian Baird

  Real, Government, Tough Questions

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• There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Truism, One Thing

  "G.F. Watts". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.

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• You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.

  Tom Robbins

  Real, Hero, Milk And Honey

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• Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

  Justin Cronin

  Courage, Real, Believe

  Justin Cronin (2004). “The Summer Guest”, p.128, Dial Press

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• I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Real, Animal, Quality

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they work to correct them. We stand up and we use our voices for things other than self promotion. We don't stand by and let racism and sexism and homophobia run rapid on our watch. Real fearless and fierce women complement other women and we recognize and embrace that their shine in no way diminishes our light and that it actually makes our light shine brighter.

  Gabrielle Union

  Running, Real, Mistake

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• You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin

  Nobuhiro Watsuki

  Courage, Real, Dies

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• Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

  Christopher Paolini

  Real, Believe, Suffering

  Christopher Paolini (2005). “Eragon”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

  David Clement-Davies

  Love, Giving Up, Real

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• Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

  Catherine Anderson

  Fear, Real, Mean

  Catherine Anderson (2009). “Comanche Heart”, p.193, Penguin

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• I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

  Josh Lanyon

  Real, Lying, Barricades

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

  Max Lucado

  Real, Triumph, Twins

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.157, Thomas Nelson Inc

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