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Courage Quotes


"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is accepting and neutralizing the fear with the power of love."


"Fear is the original sin, suddenly said a still, small voice away back-back-back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice."


"Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you."


"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self."


"Face your fears or they will climb over your back."


"To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is Not To Regard The Perception Of Others."


"A person who finds grace never lacks the courage to endure, remain resolute in principles and action in the face of an easy collapse into anger, insanity, and self-destruction when living in an increasing chaotic world filled with armed conflict, terrorism, and cultural discord."


"How would your life be different if you decided to live your dream instead of holding onto your nightmare? Let today be the day you free yourself from the fears that are holding you back and act upon the dream you've always had."


"I should have tried getting blown up months ago if that's what it takes to get you to be nice to me."


"Stand up for your beliefs, and be different."


"With every day that passed, the boy's heart became more and moresilent. It no longer wanted to know about things of the past or future; it was content simply tocontemplate the desert, and to drink with the boy from the Soul of the World. The boy and his heart hadbecome friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. When his heart spoke to him, it was to provide a stimulus to the boy, and to give him strength, becausethe days of silence there in the desert were wearisome. His heart told the boy what his strongest qualitieswere: his courage in having given up his sheep and in trying to live out his destiny, and his enthusiasmduring the time he had worked at the crystal shop."


"And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared."


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


"It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears."


"I don't think I can.. I know I will."


"So friends, get out of your comfort zone. Don't be afraid of pain. Confront your pains."


"It is in the stormiest skies that eagles find their true calling."


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


"Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through."


"Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it."


"To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around."


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


"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."


"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."


"When you are walking on water it is fear, not sharks, that sinks you."


"A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker."


"I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know."


"Dare to try the impossible."


"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."


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


"When you wrestle with life, your heart inevitably becomes a warrior; when you wrestle with death, your soul inevitably becomes a conqueror."


"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
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