“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Porbandar, India
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
After the 2004 Tsunami in Kathaluwa, Sri Lanka
Lourdes, France
Oaxaca, Mexico
“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. God is awake.” – Victor Hugo
Uttar Pradesh, India
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent van Gogh
New York, NY, USA
Peshawar, Pakistan
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ― Anaïs Nin
Calcutta, India
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
Tibet
Manila, Philippines
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou
Kampala, Uganda
“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Tibet
“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.” – William Danforth
Jaipur, India
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” – Thomas Merton
Kabul, Afghanistan Laila Haidary hands out food to addicts under a bridge in Kabul and tries to persuade them to join her program which provides opportunities for rehabilitation and job training.
Gostivar, Macedonia
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
Haiti
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believeyour critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mumbai, India
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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Please check out Steve’s current and upcoming exhibitions:
The Eyes of Humanity Currently on Display until October 21, 2021 Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar, Germany More Information
Wabi Sabi: Beauty in Imperfection Currently on Display until August 23, 2021 Musée Barbier-Mueller Genéve, Switzerland More Information
The World of Steve McCurry Currently on Display until October 10, 2021 Waagnatie Antwerp, Belgium More Information
On Color June 18 – September 19, 2021 Messe Graz Graz, Austria More Information
Terre Alte June 18 – September 19, 2021 Palazzo delle Albere Trento, Italy
The World of Steve McCurry June 24 – October 20, 2021 Maag Hall Zurich / Eventhall Zurich, Switzerland More Information
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