Words Of Courage Quotes

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

W. Clement Stone

Strength, Inspiring, Courage

"Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher

Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Muhammad Ali

Inspirational, Life, Success

Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage

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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Anne Frank

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Courage, Failure, Humility

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

"Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Encouraging, Confidence

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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Drew Barrymore

Inspirational, Life, Strength

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Mark Twain

Courage, Fear, Cancer

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

Life, Change, Meaningful

Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Motivational, Inspiring, Sad

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

Maya Angelou

Courage, Practice, Bravery

USA Today, March 5, 1988.

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement

"Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

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The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha

Being Happy, Health, Healing

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