Courageous Quotes - Page 9

• Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

  Isabel Allende

  Inspiring, Children, Women

  "Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2008.

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• Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

  Cornel West

  Successful, Greatness, People

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• And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Maturity, Alive

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts to protect Burma's (Myanmar's) remaining tigers and establish the Hukawng Valley Reserve. It is hard to imagine a more passionate or exciting account of today's conservation challenges, or a more thoughtful rendering of life, death, and politics in Burma's most remote corners.

  Thant Myint-U

  Uplifting, Thoughtful, Effort

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• 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

  Faith, Courage, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

  Michael Moorcock

  Heart, Ambition, Brain

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• Jeremy used to hate it when she was younger because someone in her class told her redheads were freaks of nature.But our mother told her that redheads were genetically more courageous than other people and that she should always where her hair long,like a wariors badge of honor.

  Ellen Potter

  Mother, Hate, Hair

  Ellen Potter (2009). “Slob”, p.18, Penguin

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• The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments. As in all the fables, they were made for each other.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Beautiful, Daughter, Princess

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.6, Del Rey

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• You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

  Joseph Heller

  Taken, Character, Intelligent

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Princess, Army

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.387, Macmillan

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• There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Self

  "2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Yet you told him you loved him?" "Yes, I did." Bridgid was clearly impressed. "You're more courageous than I am. The fear of being rejected pains me to even think about, yet you boldly told Brodick how you felt, even though he hadn't spoken his feelings." "Actually, he told me I loved him.

  Julie Garwood

  Pain, Thinking, Feelings

  Julie Garwood (2002). “Ransom”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.

  David Abram

  Hero, Names, Broken

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• The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Opportunity, Names

  Speech by President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, at inauguration of National Conference of the Association for the Progress of Management, www.lamoncloa.gob.es. November 13, 2012.

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• Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

  Brené Brown

  Peace, Swimming, Like You

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• Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love–because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Heart, Weakness

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• Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Fashion, Crazy, Shoes

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006). “The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings”, p.25, Bantam Classics

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• There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

  Etel Adnan

  Different, World, Tenderness

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• Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

  Pete Townshend

  Gay, Men, Rivers

  Pete Townshend (2012). “Pete Townshend: Who I Am”, HarperCollins UK

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• There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Courage, Fear, Reptiles

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Couple, Divorce, Should Have

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• Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Grateful, Exercise, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1963). “The Thomas Jefferson Papers”, Dodd

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• Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation.

  Michael Chekhov

  Cutting, Imagination, Technique

  Michael Chekhov, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1963). “To the director and playwright”

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• To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

  Tariq Ramadan

  Voice, Voiceless, Be Courageous

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• My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

  Anton Chekhov

  Business, Thinking, Artist

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