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Courage And Humility Quotes About Facing Challenges

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher

True courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to proceed in spite of it.
Unknown

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Confucius

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss

Courage And Humility Quotes About Admitting Mistakes

Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee

It takes courage to admit one's mistakes, but humility to learn from them.
John C. Maxwell

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford

Admitting our mistakes is a sign of maturity and wisdom. We learn more from knowing our mistakes.
Anonymous

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to blame others for your failures and take responsibility for your mistakes.
Anonymous

It takes guts to admit when you're wrong, but it takes even more guts to change.
Anonymous

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
Anonymous

The only way to avoid mistakes is not to do anything. And that... will be the ultimate mistake.
Anonymous

Courage And Humility Quotes About Taking Responsibility

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
Jim Rohn

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda

The greatest gift you can give yourself is to be honest with yourself, and the greatest gift you can give to others is to be honest with them.
Jonas Salk

The only true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.
Brian Tracy

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being Open-Minded

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

The only thing we know for sure is that we know nothing at all.
Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being Self-Aware

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking

True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being Authentic

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Brené Brown

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung

Authenticity is not something we have or don't have. It's a practice - a conscious choice of how we want to live. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
Brené Brown

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being Resilient

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
Elizabeth Edwards

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being Compassionate

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton

Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.
Arthur Jersild

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.
Brené Brown

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
Dalai Lama

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer

Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arnold Schopenhauer

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.
Dalai Lama

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being A Good Leader

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell

Courage And Humility Quotes About Learning From Failures

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.
Jillian Michaels

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything — and it works.
William Strong

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being Vulnerable

Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.
Brene Brown

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.
Brene Brown

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.
Brene Brown

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure.
Naomi Wolf

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
Ashton Kutcher

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
Brene Brown

Vulnerability is the key to happiness. Vulnerable people are authentic people. And authentic people are happy people.
Gretchen Rubin

Vulnerability is the only way we can feel when we truly share the art we've made. When we share it, when we connect, we're doing so from a place of worthiness.
Brene Brown

Vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
Brene Brown

Vulnerability is the most accurate measurement of courage.
Brene Brown

Courage And Humility Quotes About Showing Empathy

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler

Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.

Empathy is the key to great stories.
Ami Vitale

Empathy is the starting point for a lot of social change.
Bryan Stevenson

Empathy is the connection that allows us to lean in and trust, to create, to innovate, and to devote ourselves to cultivating meaningful relationships in every aspect of our lives.
Sheryl Sandberg

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being Honest

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth-telling, truth-speaking, truth-living, and truth-loving.
James E. Faust

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon

Honesty is the best image.
Tom Wilson

Honesty is the foundation of all human connection. Without it, trust is impossible.
Brene Brown

Honesty is the first step towards a better life.
Unknown

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being Humble

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
Rick Pitino

Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you.
Unknown

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.
Vanna Bonta

Humility is the foundation of wisdom. If you want to be wise, learn to be humble.
Unknown

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
Mother Teresa

Courage And Humility Quotes About Being Courageous

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou

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