Real Courage

“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

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

“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

“What would life be if we had no courage
to attempt anything?”
– Vincent van Gogh

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anaïs Nin

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

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

“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

“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.”
– William Danforth

“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

“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

“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 believe your 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

“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
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Wabi Sabi: Beauty in Imperfection
Currently on Display until August 23, 2021
Musée Barbier-Mueller
Genéve, Switzerland
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The World of Steve McCurry
Currently on Display until October 10, 2021
Waagnatie
Antwerp, Belgium
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On Color
June 18 – September 19, 2021
Messe Graz
Graz, Austria
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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
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