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Quotes About Courage

Let go of our so-often-denied fear of being found unlovable.
~ Gordon MacKenzie
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
~ Gordon Parks
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
~ Gordon Parks
Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
We wouldn't be capable of hope, if hope had no meaning.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
For sooner or later, no matter what fantastic long-range weapons you mounted, the ground itself had to be taken —and for that there had never been anything but the man in the ranks.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter.
~ Author Unknown
Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment.
~ Dodinsky
If you allow momentary defeats to find shelter in your heart, you are allowing your most beautiful dreams to become homeless.
~ Dodinsky
One needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.
~ Danish Proverb
Do not allow the noise of negativity to smother the whisper of your heart.
~ Dodinsky
Even if you lose a ray or two of your star, keep shining!
~ Terri Guillemets
Everyone can navigate in fine weather.
~ Italian proverb
Fall in love a little and if you are feeling very brave… fall in love a whole [f@%'ing] lot.
~ Cleo Wade, cleowade.com
Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.
~ Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson
If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative.
~ Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson
A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.
~ Indian proverb
Damn the expurgated books! I say damn 'em! The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.
~ Walt Whitman, 1888
Clutch some hope from fear — read banned books.
~ Terri Guillemets
What's in the raging flame of banned books burning? Knowledge, truth, learning, courage, freedom, yearning.
~ Terri Guillemets
They try to burn the Devil out from books, but Angels of knowledge resist the flames of fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
Let knowledge live. Burn your fears instead.
~ Terri Guillemets
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
~ Joseph Campbell
I tell you... that girl is a young woman of remarkable strength of character... a girl of firmness and the courage of her convictions... she carried a box of candy home the other day without opening it.
~ America, 1889