Courageous quotes
145 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking."
"To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous."
"You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude"
"The strong survive, but the courageous triumph."
"Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking."
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"Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity."
"The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies"
"I believe there is only one truly courageous thing we can do with our lives: to love unconditionally. Absolutely, with all of ourselves, so much that it hurts and then more."
"What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"
"I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life."
"We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous."
"There is nothing to fear except fear it's self."
"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices."
"Courage is exhilarating."
"Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging."
"There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions."
"Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life."
"I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve."
"I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults."
"Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?"
"Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet."
"Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership."
"Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior."
"You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right."
"One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things."
