courage
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘courage’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it’s starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.” -Ann Bancroft
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“Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.” -Emile Hirsch
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“When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.” -Kirstie Alley
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“The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.” -Carson Daly
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“Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.” -Kenneth L. Pike
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“September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.” -Geraldine Brooks
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“Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.” -Julia Cameron
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“Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.” -Charles Kennedy
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“An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.” -Joseph Pulitzer
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“It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.” -Ray Comfort
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“Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.” -Richard L. Evans
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“I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.” -Tadao Ando
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“In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.” -Oriana Fallaci
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“One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare’s characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.” -Kenneth Branagh
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“I’m still shy – I’m no good at my children’s parent-teacher conferences, and I’m slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There’s nothing that I’m too scared to have a go at.” -Emily Mortimer
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“I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.” -Wallis Simpson
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“Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.” -Bianca Jagger
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“No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What’s cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don’t want to do that.” -Ed Koch
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“Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.” -Bob Richards
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“How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.” -Anna Held
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“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.” -George Konrad
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“With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.” -Dan Lipinski
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“Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.” -Kevin Rudd
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“You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.” -Paul Robeson
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“I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights – if need be – with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.” -Lee Myung-bak
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“War is fear cloaked in courage.” -William Westmoreland
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“Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.” -Juan Ruiz
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“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.” -William Hurt
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“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.” -Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.” -Sydney Smith
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“What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.” -Scott Walker
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“Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.” -Jean Anouilh
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“True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.” -John Petit-Senn
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“The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.” -Marlon Brando
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“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.” -Ben Okri
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“One has to have the courage of one’s pessimism.” -Ian Mcewan
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“Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.” -Kathryn Bigelow
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“Without strength and courage it’s really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you’re alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.” -Scott Hamilton
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“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.” -Hosea Ballou
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“But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that’s where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.” -Michael Hutchence
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“Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun
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“I’ve always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.” -Renee Fleming
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“Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?” -Marie Antoinette
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“There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.” -Abu Bakar Bashir
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“When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.” -Eamon de Valera
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“The ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of ‘fair competition.’ It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.” -Ai Weiwei
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“Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.” -Frances Rodman
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“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.” -William Blackstone
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“There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.” -Jonas Salk
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“You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don’t think you are gay. It’s enough to drive you crazy.” -Portia de Rossi
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“We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.” -Sarojini Naidu
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“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.” -Maria Mitchell
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“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.” -Hans Urs von Balthasar
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“Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.” -Bear Grylls
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“Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.” -Gabriele D’Annunzio
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“We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.” -Muammar al-Gaddafi
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“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.” -Umberto Eco
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“There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that’s…
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“TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day’s lines while you are shooting today’s scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.” -Sharon Stone
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“I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it’s not part of a sensible way of living. It’s a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it’s a path of great courage.…
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“The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It’s astounding. Maybe they can’t see or they can’t hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They’re models of courage, in a strange way.” -James Hillman
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“Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.” -Timothy Dalton
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“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.” -Ginnifer Goodwin
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“Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn’t show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.” -Jeff Goodell
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“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.” -King Abdullah II
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“A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months’ experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience.” -Stanley Baldwin
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“Women’s courage is rather different from men’s. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.” -Mary Wesley
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“I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.” -Jim DeMint
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“People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.” -Graham Greene
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“I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what’s important.” -George Michael
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“Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.” -Angela Merkel
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“Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.” -Bob Woodward
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“On sensitive issues, talk isn’t cheap – it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.” -Marvin Olasky
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“When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.” -Della Reese
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“Today, because of President Obama’s courage, kids can stay on their parent’s plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.” -Rahm Emanuel
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“I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.” -Elia Kazan
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“I have a lot of courage. I’m a realist.” -Elisabeth Rohm
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“In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.” -Isabel Allende
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“A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can’t find in an army without morale.” -Jalal Talabani
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“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.” -Aaron Hill
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“Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It’s kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.” -Robert Crumb
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“If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” -David Viscott
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“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.” -Dean Koontz
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“Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.” -Lech Walesa
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“A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn’t have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.” -Sun Myung Moon
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“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?” -Logan P. Smith
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“It’s not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We’ve gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it’s a – very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so…
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“The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.” -Carl Friedrich Gauss
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“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” -Margaret Mitchell
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“What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.” -Rand Paul
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“Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.” -Stephen Leacock
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“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” -George A. Sheehan
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“He’s nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one’s nastiness does not make one nice.” -Michael Kinsley
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“It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.” -John Ciardi
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“Unjust. How many times I’ve used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don’t have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.” -Lillian Hellman
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“You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.” -Liz Phair
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“I don’t understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.” -Loretta Young
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“As for courage and will – we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.” -Andre Norton
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“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.” -Erwin Rommel
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“Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.” -Jean Baudrillard
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“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.” -Grace Paley
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“Washington’s answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The ‘fiscal cliff’ process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation’s so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.” -Ron Fournier
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“When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you’re not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.” -Ricky Williams
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“We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.” -Joe Biden
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“It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can’t do because we feed ourselves so much denial.” -Zoe Saldana
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“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.” -Andrew Johnson
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“The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
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“Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.” -Neal A. Maxwell
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“Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.” -James Freeman Clarke
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“I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.” -August Strindberg
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“You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.” -William J. H. Boetcker
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“We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.” -Earl Wilson
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“We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.” -Tom Brown, Jr.
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“Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.” -David Cameron
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“The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.” -Joseph Conrad
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“Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.” -Plautus
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“And I think most people in this country want to see a president that’s got the courage to say we’re going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we’re going to get Americans working.” -Rick Perry
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“There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.” -David Letterman
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“Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” -Louis D. Brandeis
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“I have no physical courage, I’ve asked for a double.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.” -Andre Malraux
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“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” -Clare Boothe Luce
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“Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.” -Leo Rosten
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“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.” -Thomas Hardy
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“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.” -Benito Mussolini
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“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.” -Edward Gibbon
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“My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.” -Clay Aiken
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“Every man of courage is a man of his word.” -Pierre Corneille
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“A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.” -Lewis Mumford
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“The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.” -Paul Tillich
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“It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one’s inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.” -Rollo May
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“A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.” -Suze Orman
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“Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.” -Charles Luckman
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“Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.” -Publilius Syrus
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“For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.” -Albert Claude
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“The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.” -Pam Brown
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“To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“It takes vision and courage to create – it takes faith and courage to prove.” -Owen D. Young
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“Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.” -John Keegan
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“If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.” -Frances Wright
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“I think there’s a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!” -Jessica Simpson
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“Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.” -Laura Schlessinger
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“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” -Ralph W. Sockman
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“So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.” -Zora Neale Hurston
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“The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what’s safe and comfortable.” -Terri Clark
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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“You have to have courage to be obedient to God.” -Charles Stanley
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“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.” -J. D. Salinger
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“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” -Ovid
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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” -Amelia Earhart
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“Courage, my friends ’tis not too late to build a better world.” -Tommy Douglas
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“Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.” -Eddie Rickenbacker
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“Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.” -Peter Ustinov
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“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.” -Christopher Morley
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“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” -Robert Anthony
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“Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” -James Allen
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“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.” -Alfred North Whitehead
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“At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.” -Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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“Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.” -Wendell Phillips
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“While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.” -Al Gore
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“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.” -Les Brown
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“Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.” -Maxwell Maltz
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“There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.” -Moliere
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“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.” -George Santayana
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“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.” -Joseph Addison
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“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.” -Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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“Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.” -Desmond Tutu
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“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.” -William Hazlitt
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“Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.” -Gary Oldman
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“The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.” -Thomas Aquinas
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