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Courage Quotes


"It is your life, enthusiastically accept the challenge."


"All great achievements of humanity begin with the madness of a few lion-hearts."


"Be as fierce as a lion. Let the world hear you roar."


"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."


"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."


"Don't look at your circumstance. Be courageous!"


"We are taught to fear anything that can bring us closer to death - to keep us from taking huge leaps that involve risk. The only thing you should fear in this lifetime is not taking risks while you are living. I do not mean to go jump off a bridge. I mean, to go all out to reach your dreams, to dare to do things you typically would not do out of fear. Pain has a threshold and so does death. Fear neither, and never fear what has no right to be feared."


"A cowardly warrior is like a toothless lion."


"I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day."


"For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!"


"Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life."


"I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure."


"To keep a warm heart in a cold world is the real victory."


"Dare to try the impossible."


"There will be times in your life when you will have to stand alone in your pain and choke back all the injustice done to you. Letting go will be the hardest thing you have ever had to do because it means losing something you wish you didn't have to lose--the person that you care for. However, to be authentic--one person, it requires standing for truth as you know it to be, instead of having your dignity destroyed by another. It is a fire you have to walk through, in order to truly live. Sometimes, practicing faith by letting go is the most painful chapter of your life that will take every bit of courage for you to close, before you can be reborn."


"To declare the raw truth is to live in dominion."



"You say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you."


"The Warrior looks at the column of Fear, where he reads: "you are about to enter an unknown and dangerous world where all that you have learned up to now will be of no use whatsoever.The Warrior of Light looks at the column of Desire, where he reads: "you are about to leave a known world where all the things you always wanted and all that you have fought so hard for are kept.The Warrior smiles, because nothing can frighten him and nothing can hold him. With the confidence of those who know what they want, he opens the door."


"Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one."


"He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall."


"Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more."


"From the beginning, I've told journalists that I planned to write better than any writer of my era who graduated from an Ivy League college. It sounds boastful and it is. But The Citadel taught me that I was a man of courage when I survived that merciless crucible of a four-year test that is the measure of The Citadel experience. I'm the kind of writer I am because of The Citadel."


"Walking on water is safer than sailing in a leaking boat."


"Perhaps the only reason why you worry in life, tarry your goals and bury your joy is that you are still bearing the untold story of you untouched, which seems to bang on the doors of your heart every time! Go and open the way, and fulfill your destiny!"


"Obstacles must be overcome. Problems must be solved. Doubt must be resisted. Fear must be defeated."


"What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him."


"Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls."


"Never let your fears hold you back. Fears are not easily overcome but when you take the time to be brave it is worth the struggle."


"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."


"My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on."
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