Quotes with courageous

  • I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
  • The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

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  • Jean Paul A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar 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
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Burgess Owens As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu Because of a great love, one is courageous.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Gloria Steinem Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Queen Victoria 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
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Hyman G. Rickover Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
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  • Muhammad Ali He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Greenwood I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Ashleigh Banfield I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
    Ashleigh Banfield
    Canadian-American journalist (1967 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Brendan Francis Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Ann Bancroft Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Marian Anderson The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carl Levin The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Jean Paul The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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