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Courage Quotes
"We're all scared.Yes, all of us. I'm afraid every day. If I'm not afraid, I must not be doing something I need to be doing. I believe that when you're doing important work, you feel fear because you don't want to fail. The challenge is to not let the fear stop you from doing the work that will enable you to achieve your goals. You need to recognize the fear for what it is and allow your "why (your compelling vision) for what you're doing be bigger than the fear itself.So where do you start? Identify your fears. As they say, "name it to tame it." Then, move forward."
"When nothing is possible, then do the impossible."
"Bellona has answered my prayer. She doesn't fight my battles for me. She doesn't guarantee me easy victory. She grants me opportunities to prove myself. She gives me strong enemies and potential allies."
"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."
"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."
"I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one."
"A step towards what you fear is a mile towards mastering it."
"It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced."
"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."
"The bent but unbroken ones."
"Greatness lies on the other side of fear."
"How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly."
"There are challenges in everyday life. May you find courage to overcome the challenges."
"If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests."
"Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise."
"Taking a step in the dark is braver than taking a leap in light."
"Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can't conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do."
"Don't be afraid of being alone, a lion does not rule the jungle with sheep at its side."
"I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I- I don't..."His voice cracked, and Jason could tell the guy was about to get teary-eyed. Whether Nico had really given up on Percy or not, Jason couldn't imagine what it had been like for Nico all those years, keeping a secret that would've been unthinkable to share in the 1940s, denying who he was, feeling completely alone- even more isolated than other demigods."Nico," he said gently, "I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you did? That was maybe the bravest."
"We fear that we are ugly, that we cannot succeed and we are afraid of something."
"We ought to face our destiny with courage."
"Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all."
"Idealistic world views should be our focus."
"You don't have to swim when you know how to walk on water."
"Battling wolves today strengthens you for battling lions tomorrow."
"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."
"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."
"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"
"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."
"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."
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