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π₯ Courage
βA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.β
β Jackie Robinson
βFailure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.β
β Elon Musk
βTo stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.β
β Jordan Peterson
βI have taken England with both hands.β
β William the Conqueror
βIt is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.β
β J.K. Rowling
βThe antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.β
β David Whyte
βI will find a way or make one.β
β Hannibal
βOne of the criticisms I have faced over the years is that I am not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow I am too empathetic. I wholly reject those criticisms.β
β Jacinda Ardern
βBrilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.β
β Peter Thiel
βThe only way to be remarkable is to do something worth remarking about.β
β Seth Godin
βStrength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.β
β Mahatma Gandhi
βDeath is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.β
β Don Miguel Ruiz
βStrength lies in differences, not in similarities.β
β Stephen Covey
βObstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.β
β Henry Ford
βHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.β
β Anne Frank
βFreedom is what you do with what has been done to you.β
β Jean-Paul Sartre
βBelieve you can and you are halfway there.β
β Theodore Roosevelt
βEverything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.β
β Wayne Dyer
βWhatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βNever be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.β
β Corrie ten Boom
βOne can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.β
β Abraham Maslow
βSurvival can be summed up in three words: never give up.β
β Bear Grylls
βEvery man dies. Not every man really lives.β
β William Wallace
βEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.β
β Victor Hugo
βDo not fear death. Fear the unlived life.β
β Miyamoto Musashi
βIf somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes, then learn how to do it later.β
β Richard Branson
βLet us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.β
β Sitting Bull
βMastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.β
β Lao Tzu
βI am not afraid. I was born to do this.β
β Joan of Arc
βIt does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.β
β Vince Lombardi
βCircumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.β
β Epictetus
βNecessity does the work of courage.β
β George Eliot
βI have learned you are never too small to make a difference.β
β Greta Thunberg
βThose who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.β
β James Baldwin
βWe will either find a way, or make one.β
β Hannibal Barca
βThe secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.β
β Thucydides
βYou wanna fly, you got to give up the thing that weighs you down.β
β Toni Morrison
βThe obstacle in the path becomes the path.β
β Ryan Holiday
βAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.β
β Helen Keller
βWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.β
β Kurt Vonnegut
βIt always seems impossible until it is done.β
β Nelson Mandela
βFaith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.β
β Bob Proctor
βI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.β
β Henry David Thoreau
βA man who never fails is a man who never does anything.β
β Oda Nobunaga
βThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice; it is conformity.β
β Rollo May
βCourage is the political virtue par excellence.β
β Hannah Arendt
βRespond to every call that excites your spirit.β
β Rumi
βA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.β
β John A. Shedd
βI was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors cannot say: I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.β
β Harriet Tubman
βHardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.β
β C.S. Lewis
βI have grown most not from victories, but setbacks.β
β Serena Williams
βLife without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.β
β Khalil Gibran
βIt is not the will to win that matters. Everyone has that. It is the will to prepare to win that matters.β
β Bear Bryant
βWhat you resist persists. What you befriend you transcend.β
β Robin Sharma
βI tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls.β
β Malala Yousafzai
βHope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.β
β Vaclav Havel
βThe only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.β
β Aung San Suu Kyi
βYou cannot get to courage without walking through vulnerability.β
β Brene Brown
βIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.β
β Unknown
βTruth and love must prevail over lies and hatred.β
βWithout courage, wisdom bears no fruit.β
β Baltasar GraciΓ‘n
βThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.β
β Zora Neale Hurston
βRemembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.β
β Steve Jobs
βWith realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.β
β Dalai Lama
βSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.β
β F. Scott Fitzgerald
βDo one thing every day that scares you.β
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βWhen the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.β
βThe will to survive is the most powerful force on the planet.β
β Les Stroud
βIf you cannot see yourself working with someone for life, do not work with them for a day.β
β Naval Ravikant
βReal courage is when you know you are licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.β
β Harper Lee
βI have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that will not work.β
β Thomas Edison
βI like criticism. It makes you strong.β
β LeBron James
βThe cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.β
β Joseph Campbell
βI have learned over the years that when one mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.β
β Rosa Parks
βCourage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.β
β Plutarch
βThere is nothing impossible to him who will try.β
β Alexander the Great
βFaith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase.β
β Martin Luther King Jr.
βNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man character, give him power.β
β Abraham Lincoln
βYour children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself.β
βIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.β
β Desmond Tutu
βEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one attitude in any given set of circumstances.β
β Viktor Frankl
βYou were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?β
βCourage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently.β
β Maya Angelou
βIf you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.β
β Jim Rohn
βFeel the fear and do it anyway.β
β Jack Canfield
βI will fight no more forever.β
β Chief Joseph
βInaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.β
β Dale Carnegie
βTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?β
β Mary Oliver
βSilence in the face of evil is itself evil.β
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βTo see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.β
β Confucius
βFailure is impossible.β
β Susan B. Anthony
βI count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies.β
β Aristotle
βThe brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.β
βGod grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.β
β Chester Nimitz
βAs we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.β
β Marianne Williamson
βHold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.β
β Langston Hughes
βIt is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it.β
βI learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.β
βWhen they go low, we go high.β
β Michelle Obama
βCourage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.β
βBefore I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.β
β Parker Palmer
βFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.β
β Martin Niemoller
βIn life, you need either inspiration or desperation.β
β Tony Robbins
βThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.β
βBravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.β
β Omar Bradley
βIf you are not getting better, you are getting worse.β
β Pat Riley
βSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.β
β Winston Churchill
βBeing deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.β
βIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.β
β Seneca
βIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.β
β Frederick Douglass
βAll our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.β
β Walt Disney
βWho is the brave man β he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a word. The brave man is he who looks fear in the face and overcomes it.β
β Nachman of Breslov
βGreat things are done by a series of small things brought together.β
β Vincent van Gogh
βHard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.β
β Alex Ferguson
βIn the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.β
βFreedom of expression is the foundation of human rights.β
β Liu Xiaobo
βRisk comes from not knowing what you are doing.β
β Warren Buffett
βWhat do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.β
β Dean Smith
βCourage is knowing what not to fear.β
β Plato
βYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.β
β Carl Jung
βWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.β
β Jimi Hendrix
βThe thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.β
β Oprah Winfrey
βIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.β
βHope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with.β
β Rebecca Solnit
βThe will to succeed is important, but what is more important is the will to prepare.β
β Bobby Knight
βDo not look at the scoreboard. Focus on the process.β
β Nick Saban
βThe gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.β
βI freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.β
βThings turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.β
β John Wooden
βIt is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.β
β Edmund Hillary
βChampions keep playing until they get it right.β
β Billie Jean King
βToday is a good day to fight, today is a good day to die.β
β Crazy Horse
βSmall opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.β
β Demosthenes
βTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do.β
β Mark Twain
βA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.β
βFear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.β
β Pema Chodron
βWho asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?β
β Virgil
βThe secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.β
βI am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.β
β Louise Hay
βCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear β not absence of fear.β
βThe soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.β
β Michel de Montaigne
βBuild up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.β
β Knute Rockne
βWhere there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honour.β
βThe most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.β
β Amelia Earhart
βTo see what is right and not do it is the want of courage.β
βF-E-A-R has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything And Rise.β
β Zig Ziglar
βA man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.β
β John Steinbeck
βCourage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.β
βEven the smallest person can change the course of the future.β
βYou are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.β
β David Goggins
βDo not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.β
β Bruce Lee
βCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.β
β Ambrose Redmoon
βFearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.β
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.β
βDo not explain your philosophy. Embody it.β
βPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.β
βThe greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.β
β Robert Green Ingersoll
