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Courage and Bravery QuotesFamous Courage and Bravery quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Winston Churchill, Thomas Fuller, Napoleon Bonaparte and others.
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[highlight-text]Catch courage.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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[highlight-text]No guts no glory.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]God helps the brave.
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]The coward despairs.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Act and God will act.
Joan of Arc
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[highlight-text]In politics guts is all.
Barbara Castle
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[highlight-text]Fortune helps the brave.
Virgil
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[highlight-text]Audacity has made kings.
Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion
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[highlight-text]Fate loves the fearless.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]Courage is its own reward.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]The brave venture anything.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Fortune befriends the bold.
John Dryden
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[highlight-text]It is brave to be involved.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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[highlight-text]Fortune favors the audacious.
Erasmus
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[highlight-text]Freedom is not for the timid.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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[highlight-text]Leap and the net will appear.
Julie Cameron
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[highlight-text]War is fear cloaked in courage.
William Westmoreland
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[highlight-text]Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Courage is a kind of salvation.
Plato
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[highlight-text]Valour is nobleness of the mind.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Faint heart never won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]A bold heart is half the battle.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Have the courage of your desire.
George R. Gissing
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[highlight-text]Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
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[highlight-text]God gave burdens also shoulders.
Yiddish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
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[highlight-text]I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
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[highlight-text]Despair gives courage to a coward.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Nothing but courage can guide life.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Charles Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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[highlight-text]Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
Ovid
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[highlight-text]Soldiers strike the foe in the face!
Florus
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[highlight-text]You're only as sick as your secrets.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
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[highlight-text]Courage is always the surest wisdom.
Wilfred Grenfell
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[highlight-text]Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
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[highlight-text]None but the brave deserves the fair.
John Dryden
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[highlight-text]We must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]A man of courage never wants weapons.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A brave arm makes a short sword long.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Showing up is eighty percent of life.
Woody Allen
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[highlight-text]Life is to entered upon with courage.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi
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[highlight-text]One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
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[highlight-text]I'm a real pussycat-with an iron tail.
Rona Barrett
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[highlight-text]Many become brave when brought to bag.
Norwegian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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[highlight-text]Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Many become brave when brought to bay.
Norwegian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Without courage wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Audacity more audacity always audacity.
Georges Jacques Danton
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[highlight-text]In times of stress be bold and valiant.
Horace
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[highlight-text]All men would be cowards if they durst.
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
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[highlight-text]Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]A man of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]The weapon of the brave is in his heart.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]Life is to be entered upon with courage.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]With audacity one can undertake anything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.
Suzette Haden Elgin
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[highlight-text]The real gift of love is self disclosure.
John Powell
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[highlight-text]Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
Robert Cody
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[highlight-text]Courage leads starward fear toward death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]The incurable ills are the imaginary ills
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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[highlight-text]Have the courage to act instead of react.
Earlene Larson Jenks
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[highlight-text]A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Homer
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[highlight-text]All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honore de Balzac
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[highlight-text]We ought to face our destiny with courage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
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[highlight-text]A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
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[highlight-text]Audacity augments courage; hesitation fear.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Merry Browne
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[highlight-text]Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.
Phillippus
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[highlight-text]Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.
Terence
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[highlight-text]Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
H. G. Bohn
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[highlight-text]He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
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[highlight-text]The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Talmud
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[highlight-text]The best way out of a problem is through it.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]None are so blind as those who will not see.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
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[highlight-text]No blame should attach to telling the truth.
Anita Brookner
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[highlight-text]Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Why not is a slogan for an interesting life.
Mason Cooley
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[highlight-text]Courage is the right disposition toward fear.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]We would be cowards if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]We could be cowards if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
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[highlight-text]Everyone will be taxed according to his means.
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]No one reaches a high position without daring.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.
Author Unknown
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[highlight-text]Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
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[highlight-text]Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
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[highlight-text]Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.
John Donne
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[highlight-text]Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy
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[highlight-text]Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.
Ralph Connor
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[highlight-text]If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.
John Foster Dulles
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[highlight-text]I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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[highlight-text]He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
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[highlight-text]When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
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[highlight-text]Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
Dorothea Brande
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[highlight-text]Hail Caesar those who are about to die salute thee.
Suetonius
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[highlight-text]Heroism is not only in the man but in the occasion.
Calvin Coolidge
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[highlight-text]Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.
Horace
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[highlight-text]If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.
Moliere
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[highlight-text]Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
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[highlight-text]Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
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[highlight-text]Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
James A. Michener
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[highlight-text]You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
Benjamin Lipson
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[highlight-text]Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
Douglas MacArthur
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[highlight-text]Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
Plutarch
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[highlight-text]The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
Ralph W. Sockman
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[highlight-text]To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Franklin P. Jones
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[highlight-text]The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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[highlight-text]Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
Pierre Corneille
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[highlight-text]Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
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[highlight-text]We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
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[highlight-text]Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce
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[highlight-text]We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. Scott Peck
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[highlight-text]Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]No great thing conies to any man unless he has courage.
Cardinal James Gibbons
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[highlight-text]A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.
Jewish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
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[highlight-text]Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.
J. B. Gambrell
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[highlight-text]Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.
John G. Neihardt
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[highlight-text]Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
Nigel Dennis
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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
John Wainwright
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[highlight-text]If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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[highlight-text]Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
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[highlight-text]The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]You will never do anything in this world without courage.
James Lane Allen
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[highlight-text]Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
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[highlight-text]Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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[highlight-text]There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
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[highlight-text]If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice Walker
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[highlight-text]He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)
Motto of Scotland
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[highlight-text]Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Seneca
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[highlight-text]The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Ann Landers
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[highlight-text]The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
John Lancaster Spalding
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[highlight-text]To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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[highlight-text]To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.
William Van Horne
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[highlight-text]Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
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[highlight-text]What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh
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[highlight-text]Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
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[highlight-text]Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
Alexander Smith
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[highlight-text]Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
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[highlight-text]Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]What God expects us to attempt He also enables us to achieve.
Stephen Olford
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[highlight-text]It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.
Homer
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[highlight-text]It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
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[highlight-text]Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
Francois de Fenelon
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[highlight-text]Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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[highlight-text]I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty come what may.
Therese of Lisieux
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[highlight-text]Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.
Jessamyn West
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[highlight-text]Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
A. G. Sertillanges
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[highlight-text]There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
Henry Miller
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[highlight-text]If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
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[highlight-text]Truth is always exciting. Speak it then; life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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[highlight-text]The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
George. C. Scott
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[highlight-text]Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Wendell Phillips
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[highlight-text]Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!
Joseph Conrad
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[highlight-text]The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
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[highlight-text]Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler
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[highlight-text]This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Truth that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
Anne Shannon Monroe
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[highlight-text]Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
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[highlight-text]Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.
Randolph Bourne
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[highlight-text]Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear; not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Cowards falter but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Queen Elizabeth I
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[highlight-text]Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Teresa of Avila
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[highlight-text]Trouble like the hill ahead straightens out when you advance upon it.
Marcelene Cox
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[highlight-text]Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
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[highlight-text]All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
William F. Halsey
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[highlight-text]Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.
Grace Aguilar
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[highlight-text]When you're my size in the pros fear is a sign that you're not stupid.
Jerry Levias
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[highlight-text]Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.
Mary W. Stewart
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[highlight-text]The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.
Charles Lamb
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[highlight-text]That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly
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[highlight-text]Wealth lost-something lost; Honor lost-much lost; Courage lost-all lost.
Old German Proverb
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[highlight-text]It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.
Marion Woodman
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[highlight-text]Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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[highlight-text]We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
David Seabury
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[highlight-text]Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
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[highlight-text]Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.
Eugene E. Brussell
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[highlight-text]Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.
William L. Sullivan
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[highlight-text]Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Katharine Hepburn
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[highlight-text]To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott
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[highlight-text]We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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[highlight-text]The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.
John Cage
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[highlight-text]How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!
William Collins
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[highlight-text]Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
Viscount Cecil
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[highlight-text]The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
General Omar N. Bradley
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[highlight-text]In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.
Livy
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[highlight-text]It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
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[highlight-text]One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
James A. Worsham
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[highlight-text]Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
Douglas Malloch
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[highlight-text]Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.
James Thurber
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[highlight-text]The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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[highlight-text]A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Fridiric Chopin
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[highlight-text]Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]Where life is more terrible than death it is the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Browne
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[highlight-text]There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]If you have enough fantasies you're ready in the event that something happens.
Sheila Ballantyne
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[highlight-text]Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker
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[highlight-text]Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.
Stuart Walker
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[highlight-text]Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]A hero is no braver than an ordinary person but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Ellis Peters
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[highlight-text]Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
Stanislaus
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[highlight-text]Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
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[highlight-text]The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
Joseph Farrell
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[highlight-text]You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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[highlight-text]The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
Margot Asquith
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[highlight-text]Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
Julius Caesar
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[highlight-text]If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.
Angela Thirkell
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[highlight-text]There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
John Ruskin
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[highlight-text]In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
Heart Warrior Chosa
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[highlight-text]Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead.
Rollo May
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[highlight-text]When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]What you can do or dream you can do begin it; boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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[highlight-text]Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
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[highlight-text]The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]Courage is a quietness not martial music made Born of facing up to life even when afraid.
Emily Sargent Councilman
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B. C. Forbes
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[highlight-text]Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.
Soren Kierkegaard
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[highlight-text]The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.
John McGraw
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[highlight-text]I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum
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[highlight-text]Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
Alonzo Newton Benn
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
David Herbert Lawrence
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[highlight-text]The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
Charles M. Schwab
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[highlight-text]Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.
Katharine Hepburn
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[highlight-text]Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
Georges Gurdjieff
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[highlight-text]I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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[highlight-text]Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Dr. Kurt Goldstein
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[highlight-text]Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.
Jean Anouilh
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[highlight-text]I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Lock
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[highlight-text]The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides He provides.
Frank N. D. Buchman
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[highlight-text]It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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[highlight-text]On many of the great issues of our time men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.
William Benton
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[highlight-text]Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
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[highlight-text]God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
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[highlight-text]The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.
Winifred Gordon
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[highlight-text]Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.
Louise Nevelson
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[highlight-text]One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andri Gide
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[highlight-text]It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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[highlight-text]And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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[highlight-text]He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Giacomo Leopardi
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[highlight-text]Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak until the finish line is crossed.
Stuart Walker
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[highlight-text]Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]We need the courage to start and continue what we should do and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
Richard L. Evans
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[highlight-text]To be brave one short instant is no easy matter; it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
Comtesse Diane
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[highlight-text]Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]We have what we seek. It is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton
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[highlight-text]When moral courage feels that it is in the right there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
Leigh Hunt
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[highlight-text]Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
James Harvey Robinson
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon
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[highlight-text]What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.
Joe Torre
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[highlight-text]Being 'brave' means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being 'fearless' means being without fear.
Penelope Leach
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[highlight-text]Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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[highlight-text]A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
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[highlight-text]Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
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[highlight-text]True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.
Vladimir Zworykin
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[highlight-text]My idea of courage is the guy who has $500 000 tied up in the stock market and turns to the box scores first!
Earl Wilson
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[highlight-text]Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
Ti-Grace Atkinson
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[highlight-text]Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savages.
Paul Chatfield
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[highlight-text]That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
Ruby Dee
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[highlight-text]However mean your life is meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
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[highlight-text]Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou
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[highlight-text]Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion
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[highlight-text]Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.
Frances Rodman
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[highlight-text]Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.
Ben Ames Williams
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[highlight-text]Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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[highlight-text]You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
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[highlight-text]In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.
Jan Wong
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[highlight-text]The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Henry S. Haskins
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[highlight-text]Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
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[highlight-text]Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir
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[highlight-text]How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
Jeremy Collier
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[highlight-text]I like the man who faces what he must With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
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[highlight-text]Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
Margaret Truman
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[highlight-text]Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
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[highlight-text]Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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[highlight-text]Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.
Diane de Poitiers
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[highlight-text]It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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[highlight-text]Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed.
Huston Smith
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[highlight-text]Courage is what preserves our liberty safety life and our homes and parents our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Victoria Queen of England
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[highlight-text]Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.
Bliss Carman
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[highlight-text]Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
Jean Paul Richter
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[highlight-text]Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.
Lois Korey
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[highlight-text]The Bible tells us that a sparrow does not fall without God's notice. I know he will help us meet our responsibilities through his guidance.
Michael Cardone
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[highlight-text]However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.
Muriel Rukeyser
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[highlight-text]A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Barbara De Angelis
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[highlight-text]The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.
Robert J. McCracken
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[highlight-text]To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.
Rollo May
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[highlight-text]There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
William Barclay
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[highlight-text]The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
John Dryden
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[highlight-text]Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed; courage to change what should be changed; and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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[highlight-text]Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.
Jean Dubuffet
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[highlight-text]All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.
Elizabeth Goudge
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[highlight-text]The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt
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[highlight-text]To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.
Jean Anouilh
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[highlight-text]Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
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[highlight-text]We must have courage to bet on our ideas on the calculated risk and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
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[highlight-text]You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer to venture down new paths of endeavor.
Ralph J. Bunche
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[highlight-text]My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
O. Henry
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[highlight-text]There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world afraid to face himself.
Roscoe Snowden
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[highlight-text]To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
George Horace Lorimer
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[highlight-text]Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Liz Carpenter
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[highlight-text]It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus
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[highlight-text]If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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[highlight-text]If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly and [if] there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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[highlight-text]At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
Edwin H. Chapin
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[highlight-text]The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle—the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur
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[highlight-text]So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.
Thomas Edison
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[highlight-text]It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.
Jerome P. Fleishman
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[highlight-text]If the word frankly or sincerely is not uttered in the first ten minutes-or let us speak openly-then you are not in the presence of a genuine businessman and he will certainly go bankrupt.
Francoise Mallet-Joris
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[highlight-text]I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
Gloria Steinem
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[highlight-text]Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg
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[highlight-text]This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad but those who taste in living awareness every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
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[highlight-text]For there is one thing we must never forget...the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
Adolf Hitler
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[highlight-text]There are some women who seem to be born without fear just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women maybe out of astonishment.
Margaret Atwood
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[highlight-text]In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
Brenda Ueland
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[highlight-text]Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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[highlight-text]The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes.
Rollo May
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[highlight-text]Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
Rollo May
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[highlight-text]Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
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[highlight-text]As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.
Audre Lorde
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[highlight-text]Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.
Thomas J. Watson
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[highlight-text]The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe; the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art.
Joseph H. Odell
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[highlight-text]In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that with God's help I shall make them and make them right.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them more strength to relate to people than to dominate them more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras
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[highlight-text]Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger misfortune fear injustice while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
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[highlight-text]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. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]Duty honour country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be what you can be what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
Douglas MacArthur
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[highlight-text]Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.
Jane Wagner
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[highlight-text]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. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
W. H. Murray
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[highlight-text]There were always in me two women at least one woman desperate and bewildered who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene as upon a stage conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses helplessness despair and present to the world only a smile an eagerness curiosity enthusiasm interest.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need; not as a call to battle though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself.
John F. Kennedy