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Courage Quotes


"Everything you dream of is on the other side of fear."


"It's too risky", said doubters. "It's too difficult", said scoffers. "It's pointless", said mockers. "It's impossible", said haters. "It's already done", said believers."


"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."


"Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed."


"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."


"Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'"


"If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd."


"Being brave requires taking deliberate action and doing something new that stretches you beyond your comfort zone."


"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."


"Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth."


"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."


"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."


"It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook."


"One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality."


"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."


"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."



"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."



"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it."


"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."


"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault."


"We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit."


"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."


"It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."


"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."


"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."


"Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no."


"Though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battle than fly or submit. The defiance of HAorin Thalion is a great deed; and though Morgoth slay the doer he cannot make the deed not to have been. Even the Lords of the West will honour it; and is it not written into the history of Arda, which neither Morgoth nor ManwA, can unwrite?"
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