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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: courage, life
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    Maya Angelou
    “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: courage, love, trust
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  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I 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.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
    2909 likes

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    Carrie Jones
    “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
    ― Carrie Jones, Need
    tags: courage, freedom, happiness
    1326 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “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
    tags: being-loved, courage, laugh, love, loving
    1614 likes

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  • #9
    Christopher Paolini
    “Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: bravery, courage, nobility
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  • #10
    Ann Landers
    “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
    ― Ann Landers
    tags: acceptance, courage, judgement, letting-go, strength
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  • #11
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Andrew Solomon
    “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
    ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
    tags: belief, bravery, courage, depression, eating, exercise, food, future, life, living, love, loved-ones, medication, memories, reason, strength
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blood Noir
    tags: bravery, courage
    915 likes

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    Lauren Oliver
    “You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.

    I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: courage, love, resistance, strength
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  • #16
    Lao Tzu
    “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: courage, death, inspirational, life, moral-courage, real-life
    1871 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage
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    Erma Bombeck
    “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: bravery, courage, dreams, openness, self-disclosure, sharing
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: bravery, courage
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  • #20
    John Wayne
    “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
    ― John Wayne
    tags: bravery, courage
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  • #21
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I want to get the words "Courage" and "Bravery" tattooed across my back, so people could associate me with those things as they read them while they chase me.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, I Want
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    Thomas Merton
    “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: courage, faith, hope, possibility
    1016 likes

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  • #24
    You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
    “You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
    ― Mary Tyler Moore
    tags: adversity, bravery, courage, experience, happiness, life
    578 likes

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  • #25
    Vincent van Gogh
    “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: courage, inaction, just-do-it, timidity
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  • #26
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Hardships make or break people.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: adversity, courage, life, perseverance
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    Desmond Tutu
    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
    ― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)
    tags: bullying, dissent, moral-courage, protest
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  • #28
    George Orwell
    “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: courage, truth
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  • #29
    Joyce Meyer
    “We need a backbone, not a wishbone.”
    ― Joyce Meyer
    tags: courage
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  • #30
    John Grisham
    “Some people have more guts than brains.”
    ― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
    tags: courage
    269 likes



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