Acts Of Courage Quotes - Page 2

Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.

Jack Heffron

Writing, Pages, Way

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Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

Robin Sharma

Courage, Small Acts, Discipline

Twitter post from Sep 05, 2016

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Motherhood is always an act of courage.

Stacy Schiff

Motherhood

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Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

Nichiren

Small Acts, Challenges, Important

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Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

Barack Obama

Integrity, Government, Speaks Out

"Obama Urged to Back New Whistleblower Act" by Ed O'Keefe, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 2009.

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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.

Bear Grylls

People, Inspire, Reckless

"I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

Julianna Baggott

Believe, Past, Evil

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It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

Ai-jen Poo

People, Leader, Everyday

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I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

Veronica Roth

Simple, Decision, Might

Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.26, Harper Collins

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Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

Steve Guttenberg

Art, Said, Knows

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It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

Steven Erikson

Pain, Stranger, Said

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Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.

John Bingham

Past, Voice, Giving

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Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake...Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.

Michael Scott

Mistake, Heart, Responsibility

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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

Henrik Ibsen

Release, Spite, Stills

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Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

Billy Wilder

Mean, Fabulous, Towns

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Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Brené Brown

Accepting, Ultimate

Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

John McCain

Memories, War, Compassion

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When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.

John Carpenter

Rest Of Life, Age, Actors

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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Noam Chomsky

Insane, Looks, October

"How to destroy the future" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2013.

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It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit to yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever.

Cheri Huber

Self, Way

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I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

Diane Ackerman

Sacrifice, Compassion, People

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I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

Laurel Nakadate

Photography, Believe, Brave

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It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history. ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs. ... let me make something clear.

Neale Donald Walsch

Giving Up, May, Sacred

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Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

Margaret Atwood

Betrayal, Silence, Darkness

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One of the greatest acts of courage is having to face every day of life feeling unloved.

Joseph Curiale

Love, Feelings, Faces

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