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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“Have the courage to act instead of react.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.” -Jim Valvano
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“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.” -Jesse Jackson
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“I’m a big fan of small business ownership. I think it’s the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.” -Bill Rancic
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“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?” -Charles Lindbergh
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“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.” -Margaret Walker
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“In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?” -Virgil
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“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’” -Lady Gaga
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“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.” -William Congreve
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“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval.” -Thomas S. Monson
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“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.” -Catherine the Great
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“Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.” -Howard Cosell
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“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” -Mary Tyler Moore
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“I think my mother… made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
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“Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.” -George W. Bush
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“Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” -Jim Davis
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“Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.” -Anatole France
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“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” -Herbert Kaufman
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“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.” -Jean Paul
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“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.” -Karl Von Clausewitz
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“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.” -John Stuart Mill
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“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” -Earl Nightingale
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“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.” -Plutarch
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“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
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“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.” -Ruby Dee
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“Genius is talent set on fire by courage.” -Henry Van Dyke
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“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that’s it. You’re going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that’s deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.” -Andrew Shue
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“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” -E. M. Forster
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“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” -Erica Jong
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“To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.” -Euripides
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“Political courage is not political suicide.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.” -Virginia Woolf
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“Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.” -David Seabury
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“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.” -John Steinbeck
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“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on…
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“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary – it is a really attractive quality.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.” -William Alexander
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“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” -John Quincy Adams
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“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.” -Joseph Stalin
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“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.” -Noel Coward
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“Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked – but it’s immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.” -Laura Linney
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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” -Horace
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“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.” -Bertrand Russell
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“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” -Tori Amos
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“Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” -Dennis Prager
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“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” -Doug Coupland
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“I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days – we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.” -Hillary…
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“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.” -Thomas Merton
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“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.” -William Blake
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“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” -Pericles
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“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.” -Mason Cooley
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“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” -Mickey Mantle
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“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” -Dale Carnegie
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“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.” -George S. Patton
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“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward……
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“I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.” -Carly Fiorina
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“Life is to be entered upon with courage.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up… a lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.” -Helen Hayes
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“I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.” -Elizabeth Taylor
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“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.” -Aristotle
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“He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.” -Albert Camus
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“Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.” -Billy Graham
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“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.” -Abdul Kalam
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“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.” -Norman Schwarzkopf
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“My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.” -Chester W. Nimitz
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“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill
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“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” -Ronald Reagan
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“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” -Maya Angelou
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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” -Mark Twain
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“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” -Confucius
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“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” -Anais Nin
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“Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.” -Denis Waitley
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“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” -Epicurus
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“A man of courage is also full of faith.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.” -Oscar Wilde
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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” -e. e. cummings
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“He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.” -B. C. Forbes
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“Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.” -Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” -Mary McLeod Bethune
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“Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.” -William Tecumseh Sherman
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“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” -John Irving
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“Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.” -Dan Rather
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“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” -Thomas Szasz
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“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” -Hermann Hesse
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“Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.” -Saint Francis de Sales
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“The best protection any woman can have… is courage.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.” -Carl Lewis
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“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” -Walt Disney
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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” -Bruce Lee
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“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” -Andre Gide
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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” -Erich Fromm
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“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“Courage is found in unlikely places.” -J. R. R. Tolkien
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“To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.” -Saint Teresa of Avila
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” -E. F. Schumacher
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“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” -Jim Hightower
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“One man with courage makes a majority.” -Andrew Jackson
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“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
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“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” -Thucydides
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“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” -W. Clement Stone
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“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” -William Shakespeare
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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” -Alan Cohen
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“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.” -Victor Hugo
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“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.” -Socrates
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“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” -Coco Chanel
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“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” -John Wooden
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“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!” -Thomas A. Edison
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” -Steve Jobs
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“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
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“Courage is grace under pressure.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” -Muhammad Ali
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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne
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“Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“One man with courage is a majority.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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