Often the real test of courage is not to die, but to live.
Vitorio Alfier
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos
People are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl around into the wound to discover what your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the healing can begin.
Tori Amos
Our lives improve when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
One isn't neccessarily 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
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Frederic Amiel
"Come to the edge," Life said. They said: "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," Life said. They came. It pushed them. . . and they flew.
Guillaume Apollanaire
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
James F. Bell
anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile . . .initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napolean Bonaparte
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and simply 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
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings
Coourageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave and better that you think you are.
Joan L. Curcio
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release.
Amelia Earhardt
Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men. We will change hearts of men [only] by changing our own hearts and speaking bravely.
Einstein
What a new face courage puts on everything.
R. W. Emerson
This is what courage is. It is not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something wiht it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.
Leslie Feinberg "Stone Butch Blues"
Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.
J. Ruth
Gendler
What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no eathly thing can break you.
Paula Giddings
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
Goethe
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julia Weber Gordon
Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold there breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is to face life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.
Amber -"Mad Ship" Robin Hobb
Have courage for the great sorrows in life and pateince for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplishedyour daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond
Lidquist
I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for - firsta little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly - sometimes annoyingly - curious and persistent about discerning how others were doing what I wanted to do.
Audre Lorde
When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength tyo be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Kshavan Nair
A very popular error - having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions.
Neitzsche
As for courage and will- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry us through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George Smith Patton
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important that fear.
A. Reidman
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
Mary Anne Rodemacher-Hershey
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
George Bernard Shaw
Courage is not the towering oak that sees the stars come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
A. M. Swaim
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, inspite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugen F. Ware
ALl serious daring comes from within.
Eudora Welty
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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