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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage Quotes
The nerve it takes to face what scares you.
These courage quotes distinguish physical bravery from a deeper, moral kind - the nerve required to face denial, take risks and keep going when it would be easier to quit. Related: our Bravery collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
- Fellow Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I didn't want her to worry about my future. I wanted her to know I'd finish my degree. But she pushed me to follow my dream, even if it wasn't the safe option.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often run teaching down in my standup, but I had some great years, and it's a great job. It represented a place where I knew what I wanted to do but didn't have the courage.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the rewards of risk don't leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020