Courage Quotations And Sayings

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“It’s not that I’ve suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I’m still shaking. But… We don’t have to let those fears stop us. What’s most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.”
– Natsuki Takaya

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
– Nora Ephron

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
– Orison Swett Marden

“Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.”
– Orson Scott Card

“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.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
– Oscar Wilde

“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.”
– Ovid

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”
– Paul Tillich

“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we’re not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it’s only at night – when we’re alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep – that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.”
– Paulo Coelho

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
– Paulo Coelho

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
– Pema Chödrön

“Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.”
– Piers Anthony

“Courage is a kind of salvation.”
– Plato

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
– Plato

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
– Plato

“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.”
– Plautus

“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
– Pope John Paul II

“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I’d lived through several of them already.”
– R.J. Anderson

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires….courage.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr

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