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  • America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

    Life   Real   Men  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10167, Delphi Classics
  • Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

    Courage   Real   Believe  
    Justin Cronin (2004). “The Summer Guest”, p.128, Dial Press
  • You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.

  • It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

    Real   Men   Battle  
  • Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

    Love   Giving Up   Real  
  • I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

    Real   Lying   Barricades  
    Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books
  • Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

    "Carolyn Hax Live: Advice Columnist Tackles Your Problems". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. August 7, 2009.
  • The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

    D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.408, Cambridge University Press
  • Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

    Real   Knowing   Faces  
  • Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

    Real   Triumph   Twins  
    Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.157, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  • Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

    Graduation   Real   Voice  
    "Most of all, be kind, Newark Mayor Cory Booker tells seniors at Class Day" by Susan Gonzalez, news.yale.edu. May 19, 2013.
  • Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

    Courage   Real   Believe  
    Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.243, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

  • There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

    "G.F. Watts". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.
  • I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

    Courage   Real   Gun  
    Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”
  • I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

    Real   Animal   Quality  
    Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr
  • On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

    Courage   Real   Issues  
  • You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin

  • Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

    Fear   Real   Mean  
    Catherine Anderson (2009). “Comanche Heart”, p.193, Penguin
  • Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

  • The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

    Courage   Art   Real  
  • There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

    Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company
  • Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

    "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.
  • Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

    Real   Fate   Reflection  
    Horace Walpole (1822). “Memoires of the Last Ten years of the Reign of George the Second”, p.190
  • It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

    Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company
  • It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they work to correct them. We stand up and we use our voices for things other than self promotion. We don't stand by and let racism and sexism and homophobia run rapid on our watch. Real fearless and fierce women complement other women and we recognize and embrace that their shine in no way diminishes our light and that it actually makes our light shine brighter.

    Running   Real   Mistake  
  • Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

    Real   Adversity   Hours  
    Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.120, Jaico Publishing House
  • Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

  • Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

    Christopher Paolini (2005). “Eragon”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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