Courage Quotes
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In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
George Lois
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I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
Lord Byron
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I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
Elsie de Wolfe
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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.
Saint Augustine
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Courage is saying maybe what I'm doing isn't working, maybe I should try something else.
Anna Lappe
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I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
Bessel van der Kolk
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And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith
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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
Andrea Gibson
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James
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Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
Antonin Sertillanges
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May
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When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won’t die any quicker, but you’ll be less than the dirt on our boots. You’ll still be dust, but you’ll have wasted your short time in the light.
Conn Iggulden
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
Abraham Lincoln
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I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one. Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.
Bo Lozoff
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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
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Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame but you will never ever stop me from loving those who mock me, from loving those that hate me, from loving those who don't forgive me, from loving the cynics, from loving the darkness so much that I myself through my small acts of consistent unyielding love may bring on the light.
Cory Booker
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You don't actually need confidence or good self-esteem to be successful. You just need to have courage.
Lela Loren
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In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside.
Ernesto Neto