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Courage.

Words of bravery, boldness, and facing your fears head-on.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens
02
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
03
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
04
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
Les Brown
05
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
06
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou
07
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
Maya Angelou
08
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
09
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison
10
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
Les Brown
11
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare
12
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
13
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
Zig Ziglar
14
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain
15
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
16
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
17
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Maya Angelou
18
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
Maya Angelou
19
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
20
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
Benjamin Franklin
21
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S Lewis
22
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honor de Balzac
23
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton
24
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Richter
25
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
26
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
Billy Graham
27
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
28
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.
Alice Walker
29
From caring comes courage.
Lao Tzu
30
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu
31
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
32
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
33
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Confucius
34
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
35
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Seneca
36
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
37
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
38
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
39
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richter
40
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
41
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
Leonardo da Vinci
42
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert Hubbard
43
Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?
Paulo Coelho
44
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
45
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus
46
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
47
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
48
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind, be led by the dreams in your heart.
Roy T. Bennett
49
To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead.
Anton Chekhov
50
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide