Have Courage Quotes - Page 4

• You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Strength, Dream, Being Yourself

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• The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Courage, Inspiration

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

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• You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Being Yourself, Work, Knowing

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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  We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Courage, Powerful, Unlimited Potential

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.61, Indiana University Press

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• You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Courage, Women, Failure

  Rosalynn Carter (2016). “First Lady from Plains”, p.45, University of Arkansas Press

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• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Devil and Miss Prym”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

  James Bryant Conant

  Motivational, Courage, Funny Inspirational

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Conscience is the root of all true courage.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Courage, Roots, Conscience

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Dream, Inner Strength

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• Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

  Jewel

  Courage, Greatest Love, Nothing To Lose

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• Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Life, Motivational, Courage

  "Clare Boothe Luce". Reader's Digest, May 1979.

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• I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Dream, Courage

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• You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Courage, Faces

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• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

  Sydney Smith

  Confidence, Courage, Nature

  "Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy".

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• Courage conquers all things:
  it even gives strength to the body.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Strength, Courage

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• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strength, Love You, Heart

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Courage, Integrity, Beast

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Encouragement, Fear, Patriotic

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Positive, Courage, Fear

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• Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Courage, Commitment

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