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How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
– Anna Held
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
– Jonas Salk
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Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.
– Andrew Johnson
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
– Maya Angelou
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Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
– William Hurt
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He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.
– Michael Kinsley
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
– Samuel Johnson
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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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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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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
– Stanislaus I
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Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
– Robert Falcon Scott
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Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
– Torquato Tasso
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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
– John Murray
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
– Henry Van Dyke
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
– Ian Smith
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Freedom is a system based on courage.
– Charles Peguy
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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
– Albert Claude
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
– James T. Walsh
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Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.
– Jaclyn Smith
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Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.
– Jose Carreras
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
– Mason Cooley
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
– Barbara Cook
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
– E. M. Forster
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
– Xi Jinping
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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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Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
– Bob Woodward
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Creativity takes courage.
– Henri Matisse
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
– Anna Akhmatova
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Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
– Kenneth L. Pike
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Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
– Marie Antoinette
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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.
– Thomas S. Monson
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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
– Mary Daly
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Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
– H. G. Bohn
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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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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
– Leo Rosten
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Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
– Horace Smith
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Courage is the greatest of all 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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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
– Peter Ustinov
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Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
– Edward Albert
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Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
– Rollo May
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Courage is action, not talk.
– Jeff Rich
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Courage is always rewarded.
– Kenny Loggins
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
– George S. Patton
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
– Aristotle
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: 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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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
– Plutarch
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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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
– Thomas Szasz
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But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
– Michael Hutchence
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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
– Ray Stannard Baker
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But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
– Robert Peel
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Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
– Billy Graham
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Being gifted needs courage.
– Georg Brandes
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
– Zach Wamp
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Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.
– David Cameron
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Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
– Kevin Patterson
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Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
– Kevin Rudd
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Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.
– Publilius Syrus
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At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
– Tadao Ando
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As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.
– Susana Martinez
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As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
– Bob Schaffer
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As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
– Antony Sher
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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
– Bart Starr
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And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.
– Rick Perry
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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... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
– Michelle Obama
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And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
– Rene Cassin
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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
– Joseph Pulitzer
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Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
– Cynthia McKinney
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America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
– Rick Perry
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Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
– Mike Ferguson
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
– Erma Bombeck
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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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A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
– Suze Orman
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A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
– Suze Orman
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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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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
– Lewis Mumford
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A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
– Jacques Maritain
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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
– Les Brown
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
– Ann Bancroft
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
– Maya Angelou
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
– Jean Anouilh
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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
– Aristotle
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I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs, and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors, begging our way for the love of God, so that we might be beheaded there. I believe that our Lord had given us courage enough even at that tender age, if only we could have seen a way. But our parents seemed to us a very great hindrance.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
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A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
– Stanley Baldwin
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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
– Bernard Baruch
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We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
– Jean Baudrillard
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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
– James F. Bell
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The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
– Robert Blair
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You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.
– Michael Bloomberg
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Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, How good or how bad am I? That's where courage comes in.
– Erma Bombeck
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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