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As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.
– Barack Obama
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In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
– Suze Orman
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
– Ovid
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I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
– Jesse Owens
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
– Plato
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Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
– Plutarch
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Another word for creativity is courage.
– George Prince
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
– Mark Pryor
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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
– Grace Paley
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Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.
– Charles Palmer
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
– Pericles
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We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
– Muammar Qadhafi
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In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tryanny and unrest.
– Ronald Reagan
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
– Branch Rickey
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The warmth of zeal is not perhaps the most dangerous rock that we have to avoid; but rather that languour which ease produces and a distrust of our own courage.
– Maximilien Robespierre
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
– Leo C. Rosten
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Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think with the bark off and you have the courage to do it.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
– Mary Anne Radmacher
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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
– Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
– Frances Rodman
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We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.
– Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
– Don Miguel Ruiz
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I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
– Elizabeth Taylor
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
– Harry S. Truman
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The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
– Thucydides
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All art requires courage.
– Anne Tucker
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Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
– Henry H. Tweedy
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The courage of the soldier is heightened by the knowledge of his profession.
– Flavius Renatus Vegetius
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
– Denis Waitley
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Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
– Margaret Walker
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
– Larry Wall
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Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
– John Wayne
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
– Oscar Wilde
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Don't forget to pack your courage for your journey to greatness.
– Dave Weinbaum
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War is fear cloaked in courage.
– William Westmoreland
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
– William Butler Yeats
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
– Owen D. Young
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I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
– Loretta Young
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Character is the salesperson’s stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn’t go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.
– George M. Adams
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Courage must come from the soul within,
The man must furnish the will to win.
So figure it out for yourself, my lad.
You were born with all that the great have had,
With your equipment they all began,
Get hold of yourself and say: I can.
– Edgar A. Guest
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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
– Erica Jong
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
– Ambrose Redmoon
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
– George Santayana
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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
– Sydney Smith
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Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
– Agesilaus the Second
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By courage I repel adversity.
(Adversa Virtute Repello)
– Anonymous
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
– Dorothy Bernard
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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
– Lawana Blackwell
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
– Albert Einstein
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Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
– E. M. Forster
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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
– Corra Harris
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
– Helen Hayes
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
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Courage is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.
– Anna Lappe
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
– Harper Lee
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
– Madonna
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
– Saint Francis de Sales
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
– E. F. Schumacher
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Life without the courage for death is slavery.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
– John Lancaster Spalding
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
– Thucydides
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
– Mark Twain
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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
– John Wayne
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
– Harold Wilson
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
– Scott Hamilton
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What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
– Scott Walker
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We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
– Mary McLeod Bethune
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
– Jesse Jackson
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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
– William Congreve
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The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
– Ruby Dee
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The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
– Terri Clark
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
– William Blackstone
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It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
– Dick Cheney
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
– Lady Gaga
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I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
– Bill Rancic
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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
– Maria Mitchell
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Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
– David Cameron
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
– Jacqueline Bisset
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It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way.
– Robert Tew
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