Best courage & certain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting."”

Want Wells Certain Courage Painting Folks Passionate Lawyer Corporate Boldness

Author:Chris Gardner

“Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.”

Certain Can Do Courage Brave Consolation Be Brave

Book:Endless night

Source: Endless night

“Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.”

People Kind Together Certain Fear Community Courage Example Inspire Brave Contagious

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.”

Men Certain Chance Courage Virtue Activity Ambition Brave Various Purity Chastity Chaste Assemblage

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”

Men Inspirational Helping Motivational Certain Courage Wind Failure Amount Determination Adversity Opposition Flexibility Overcoming Adversity Kites Adversity Motivational Rise Against

Author:Lewis Mumford

“I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.”

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Author:John Patrick Shanley

“There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.”

Knows Littles Has Beens Certain Dark Steps Courage Journey Return Involved Bravery Leaving Details Setting Settings Destination Camps Routes Every Step Little Faith

Author:Bear Grylls

“There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error”

Helping Problem Certain Business Mistake Courage Air Degrees Guilt Errors Satisfaction Solve Defensiveness

Book:How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.”

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Book:Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

Source: Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

“There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.”

Years Ideas Spiritual Certain Time Can Do Change Courage Changed Warrior

Book:The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De

Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De

“There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is "guts."”

Has Beens Different Country Character Certain Names Principles Courage Integrity Certainty Guts Different Things Dictionary Different Times Different Countries Integrity Character

Author:Louis Adamic

“I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.”

Thinking Life Pain Certain Evil Courage Share Bears Proportion Worms Submission Woven

Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.”

Feelings Certain Fear Courage Source Certainty Uncertainty Total War Worthlessness Impervious

Author:Eric Hoffer

“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.”

Certain Courage Danger Certainty

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.”

Way Said Sometimes Done Certain Courage Tradition Opposites Experts

Book:In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time

Source: In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time

“It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.”

Certain Courage Greatness

Author:Jean Anouilh

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