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Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.
Alfred Adler
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Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.
David Whyte
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When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Jan Smuts
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The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!
George Lois
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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
Plato
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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
Sherwood Anderson
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The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
David Whyte
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
Gabby Douglas
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
Eleanor Roosevelt
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U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
Robert Fisk
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We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
David Seabury
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Always be courageous and strong, & don't fear. You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
Gabby Douglas
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You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.
Caroline Myss
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
Stephen Covey
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
Jack Kornfield
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Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
Daisaku Ikeda
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The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies
Kate Chopin
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A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.
Mort Sahl
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I believe there is only one truly courageous thing we can do with our lives: to love unconditionally. Absolutely, with all of ourselves, so much that it hurts and then more.
Katie Davis
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The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
Richard Rohr
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Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.
David Whyte
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Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble
Tariq Ramadan
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour
Laura Dern
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
Marian Anderson
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
Bob Goff
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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
Ben Horowitz
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Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.
Bob Goff
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Sometimes, the most courageous act a human can do is to let somebody love them
Michael Xavier
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
Thucydides
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I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.
Angela Merkel
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If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.
Tucker Max
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God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.
Joshua L. Liebman
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
Aristotle
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I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.
Brené Brown
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To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless
Tariq Ramadan
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Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state.
Alberto Villoldo
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Trust God for your current life circumstances and believe that He has called you this day to be courageous.
Beth Moore
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
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The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.
Harriet Lerner
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The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.
Dennis Rainey
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Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
David Nicholls
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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