Courage Quotes
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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
Stephen Covey -
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May
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As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.
Nick Tosches -
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Richard Stengel -
It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.
Bessel van der Kolk -
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 -
Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.
Beverly Jenkins -
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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Stephen Spender -
I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.
Ernest Cline -
To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
Stephen Covey -
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
Joseph Heller -
There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful about. And maybe the path of least resistance is just not get on the horse. Maybe the path of least resistance is to get on a different horse - but we would never move forward in fear.
Esther Hicks -
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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Courage is not the absence of fear; only a fool has no fear. Courage is seeing the fear and continuing to proceed.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
Erwin McManus -
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury -
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
William Crashaw -
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Emile Chartier
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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 -
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 -
You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury -
Art is a personal act of courage.
Seth Godin