“A strong, independent woman has the confidence to be her best self. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.” - Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. “I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. “She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared, but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.” - Atticus “The best protection any woman can have… is courage.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton “Though we have the courage to raise our daughters more like our sons, we’ve rarely had the courage to raise our sons like our daughters.” - Gloria Steinem “Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.” - Albert Einstein But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.” - Chris Bradford “Anyone can give up it is the easiest thing in the world to do. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.” - Alex Karras “It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more “manhood” to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, ‘Can I be of help?’” - Maya Angelou I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. “Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.” - Plutarch “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” - Lao Tzu “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” - R.G. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” - Nelson Mandela “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. “I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.” - Catherine the Great We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest.” - Maya Angelou Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” - Robert F. “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher, Courage Doesn't Always Roar: And Sometimes It Does, Re-Defining Courage with Daily Inspirations I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” - Oprah Winfrey You’ve got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are. And the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.” - Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability TED Talk “Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it’s from the Latin word ‘cor’ meaning ‘heart’.
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