“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
~ T.S. Eliot Poet“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
~ Robert G. Ingersoll“We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.”
~ Helen Keller“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.”
~ John Petit-Senn“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Great ones! Here are a couple more
“Sometimes we have to go right into the fire in order to find our true healing.” – Jack Kornfield
“If you care about what others think, you will always be their prisoner.” – James Frey
“Creativity is an act of defiance.” – Twayla Tharp
“All progress occurs because people dare to be different.” – Harry Millner
“The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://msquotations.com/courage/
My #1 favorite is an affirmation of sorts:
“I have the courage to be imperfect!”
I like it so much because we are all imperfect anyway, so this statement helps me accept my imperfect nature, and to know that it’s also courageous.
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Some other favorites:
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~Ambrose Red Moon
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~Amelia Earhart
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 shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~Anais Nin
I know history, philosphy, religion, politics, sports, anthropoly and the law. A baby boomer who defines courage by the men who stormed Normandy knowing they would die; to literally save the world. Still the defintion of Courage.