Courage and bravery quotes
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E E Cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Charlie Chaplin
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
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Brene Brown
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
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Thucydides
The secret to happiness is freedom … and the secret to freedom is courage.
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William Faulkner
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Jonas Salk
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
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Erma Bombeck
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Anaïs Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Earl Nightingale
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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Lao Tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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John Irving
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Zig Ziglar
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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Ruth Gordon
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Alan Alda
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Mary E. DeMuth
Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.
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Steve Jobs
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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Theodore Roosevelt
It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things
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Pablo Casals
It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Have the courage to act instead of react.
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Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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GT Shedd
A ship in harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
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Brene Brown
Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid at the exact same time.
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Thomas Crum
Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.