More Courage Quotes And Sayings

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence in every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be… a prudent insurance policy.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
– Erica Jong

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
– Erich Fromm

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.”
– Frank Goble

“So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.”
– Freeman Dyson

“A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
– George S. Patton

“It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.”
– Giacomo Casanova

“It is brave to be involved.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks

“We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!”
– Hafiz

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.”
– Harold Wilson

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
– Harper Lee

“It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.”
– Harriet Goldhor Lerner

“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
– Harry S. Truman

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
– Harry S. Truman

“Fear makes us feel small and uncertain, uncomfortable and separate. Fearlessness expands and creates possibilities.”
– Helena Tiainen

“I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don’t. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don’t be beaten down by naysayers. Don’t let the odds scare you from even trying.”
– Howard Schultz (Ceo Starbucks Coffee)

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.”
– Jessamyn West

“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”
– Jim Hightower

“You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.”
– Jim Rohn

“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
– John F. Kennedy

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