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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. -- Coco Chanel
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. -- Nelson Mandela
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. -- Muhammad Ali
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. -- Hyman Rickover
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. -- B. R. Ambedkar
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! -- Thomas A. Edison
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. -- Jerome Bruner
Be Courageous: Succeed or Fail Monumentally! -- Ken Poirot
Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence. -- Neil Peart
Because of a great love, one is courageous. -- Laozi
There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly. -- Norman Reilly Raine
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose. -- Jewel
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. -- Peter Drucker
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them. -- Steve Pavlina
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes, the most courageous act a human can do is to let somebody love them -- Michael Xavier
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. -- Charles Edison
Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore. -- Bob Goff
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. -- Jean Paul
Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears. -- Andy Hargreaves
But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ. -- Marvin Olasky
Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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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He caught his breath, not because of her bedraggled appearance, but rather because of the way she stood, so straight and tall. Courageous. -- Jan Moran
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
Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous. -- Ted Turner
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not? -- Slick Rick
Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine. -- Veronica Roth
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. -- Harry S Truman
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. -- Kate Chopin
Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage. -- Jeff Myers
Courageous people are not afraid to fail. So often in life and in sports, we're afraid to fail. Instead, we should attack things with excitement and enthusiasm and think about the positives as opposed to the negatives. -- Matt Cullen
Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way. -- Sheri L. Dew
With Courageous, it was the first film where we really began to pay our cast. Because the church owned the previous films and we started so small, with such small budgets, people were just volunteering on the cast and crew. -- Stephen Kendrick
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. -- Bob Dylan
Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times... Courageous action is humanity at its finest. -- Robert Biswas-Diener
I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good. -- Hal Price
I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help. -- Erika Christensen
Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race. -- Gerry Lindgren
Because of a great love, one is courageous. -- Laozi
You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous. -- Gabby Douglas
Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women. -- Anne Bancroft
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know. -- Maya Angelou
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds. -- Jewel
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous. -- Norm MacDonald
There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders. -- Pope Francis
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. -- Mahmoud Abbas
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. -- Pierre de Coubertin
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. -- Queen Victoria
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. -- Haile Selassie
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat. -- Russell Crowe
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours. -- Andy Warhol
I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for. -- Diana Lopez
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies. -- Ben Carson
Be courageous. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Be strong and courageous! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Be confident, be courageous! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is reason grown courageous. -- Sherwood Eddy
I don't feel particularly courageous. -- Hillary Clinton
Be curious, confident and courageous. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward. -- Thomas A. Edison
Be curious. Be confident. Be courageous. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Living well is a courageous act. -- Alexandra Stoddard
The strong survive, but the courageous triumph. -- Michael Scott
Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best. -- Gabrielle Giffords
It's fear that makes an act courageous. -- Denise Hunter
Pay no attention to the less courageous. -- Sara Genn
Be bold, be courageous, be your best. -- Gabrielle Giffords
When in doubt, do the courageous thing. -- Jan Smuts
Every challenge you conquer, will make you courageous. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear. -- Gabby Douglas
The courageous have fears that cowards never know. -- Stanley Hauerwas
What would you do if you were courageous? -- Julie Connor
I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person. -- Ronda Rousey
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous. -- Aristotle
Those who dare try and failure are courageous souls. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We need more citizens that are committed and courageous. -- Tariq Ramadan
Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble -- Tariq Ramadan
Be strong and courageous. You can achieve your goal. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds. -- Confucius
If you want to do something courageous, try Love. -- Sean King
There is nothing to lose in life. Be courageous! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve. -- Bob Goff
I never think that anything I do is courageous. -- Howard Hodgkin
Find that courageous yes. Fight for that confident no. -- Lysa TerKeurst
I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person. -- Michael Stipe
Professional men run the business started by the courageous men. -- Amit Kalantri
Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. -- Carl Sagan
Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. -- Pam Houston
A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Dare to courageous in life.You have nothing to lose. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are. -- Maya Angelou
Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded. -- Anita Roddick
A coward dies every day,the courageous dies only once. -- Anonymous
Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step. -- Mariska Hargitay
You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit. -- Mary Daly
To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless -- Tariq Ramadan
Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly. -- Thomas a Kempis
Your potential exceeds your beliefs. Be courageous and chose the impossible. -- Robbie Vorhaus
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. -- Marie Rutkoski
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. -- Marie Rutkoski
True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not. -- Jules Renard
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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. -- William Hurt
The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have. -- David Whyte
Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves. -- John Kador
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies -- Kate Chopin
Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression. -- Farah Diba
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. -- David Seabury
Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are! -- Alice Walker
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something. -- Criss Jami

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