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Courage

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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 no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von