Courage Quotes
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Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
Bill Crawford
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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
Jeff Goodell
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Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.
Blaine Hogan
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How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?
Marcel Proust
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
Charles Eliot Norton
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt
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If we could be heroes, if just for one day.
David Bowie
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Courage comes in different forms. There's strength-that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
Nora Roberts
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There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
Herbert Spencer
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True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.
Simon Sinek
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Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.
Beverly Jenkins
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Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.
Walter Brueggemann
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Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.
Edward Hallowell
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It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.
Dennis Wholey
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My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
Mother Teresa
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
Paul Newman
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
Erica Jong
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It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity - Be grateful, my soul - My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.
Norbert Capek
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore.
Bob Goff
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
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The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.
Wallace Nesbitt
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
Ernest Shackleton