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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
-Robert Ingersoll
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One
has to abandon altogether the search for security, and
reach out to the risk of living
with both arms. One has
to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain
as a condition of existence.
One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of
knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt
always to total acceptance
of every consequence of living and dying.
-Morris
L. West
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I
wanted you to see what real courage is,
instead of getting an 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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Perfect
courage is to do unwitnessed what
we should be capable of doing before all the
world. -La Rochefoucauld
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When
you get in a tight place and everything goes against you,
till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn. -Harriet
Beecher Stowe
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| Last, but by no means least, courage--moral
courage, the courage
of one's convictions, the courage to
see things through. 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.
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| I
looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the
masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or
ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood
the meaning of life that they were able both to live and
to die. All these people were well acquainted with the
meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured
privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all
this, not a vain, but a good thing.
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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 lived through
this horror. I can take the next
thing
that comes along." -Eleanor
Roosevelt
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| 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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| 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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| The hallmark of courage in our age
of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own
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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We
must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the
calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires
courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
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| It is courage,
courage, courage, that raises
the blood of life to
crimson splendor. Live
bravely and
present a brave front
to adversity! -Horace |
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| The
courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than
the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less than a
magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A person does
what he or she must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite
of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the
basis of all human morality. -John F. Kennedy |
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Courage and cowardice are antithetical.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of
obstacles and frightening situations;
cowardice is a
submissive surrender to circumstance.
Courage breeds creative self-affirmation;
cowardice
produces destructive self-abnegation.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it;
cowardice
represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
Courageous people never lose the zest for living even though
their life situation is zestless;
cowardly people,
overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will
to live.
We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back
the flood of fear.
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is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes
the risk of questioning that conviction.
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Whatever you do, you need
courage. Whatever
course you
decide upon, there is always
someone to tell
you, 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 some of the same
courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it
takes brave men and women
to win
them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Courage
is the first of human qualities because
it is the quality
which guarantees all the others. -Winston Churchill |
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I do not ask to
walk smooth paths
Nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength and fortitude
To climb the rock-strewn road.
Give me such courage I can scale
The hardest peaks alone,
And transform every stumbling block
Into a steppingstone.
Gail Brook Burket
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The world has no room for cowards.
We must
all be
ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is
not the less noble because no drum beats before you
when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no
crowds shout your coming when you return from
your daily victory and defeat. -Robert Louis Stevenson
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Courage is what it takes to stand up
and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-Anon
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The hero
is no braver than an ordinary person,
but he or she is brave five
minutes longer. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Courage is resistance to fear,
not absence of it. -Mark Twain
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Courage
is never to let your actions
be influenced by your fears.
-Arthur Koestler
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It
is not those who commit the least faults who are the
most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the
greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest
efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately
apprehensive about tripping.
-Francis
de Sales
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Because
a person has failed once or twice or a dozen times,
you
don't want to set that person down as a failure
till he or she's dead or
loses their courage--and that's the same thing.
-George Horace Lorimer
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It is
better to die on your feet
than live on your knees. -Dolores Ibarruri (
in a 1936 speech)
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Courage is a kind
of salvation. -Plato
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The brave
person is not one who feels
no fear,
For that were stupid and
irrational;
But one, whose noble soul
its fear subdues,
And bravely dares
the danger nature shrinks from. -Joanna Baillie
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Courage is the price
that life extracts for granting peace. The soul
that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
-Amelia Earhart
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The world is not perishing for the want of
clever or talented or well-meaning people.
It is perishing
for the want of people of courage and resolution.
-Robert J. McCracken
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Courage
is doing what you're
afraid to do. There can be no
courage
unless you're scared. -Eddie Rickenbacker
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Courage is required not only in a
person's occasional crucial decision for one's own freedom,
but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the
bricks
in the structure of his building of oneself into a
person
who acts with freedom and responsibility.
-Rollo May
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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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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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It
is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human
history is shaped.
Each time a person stands up for an ideal or strikes out
against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and
crossing
each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those
ripples build a current which can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-Robert F. Kennedy
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Great things are done
more through courage than through wisdom.
-German proverb
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Dare to begin! One who postpones living
rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run
out before he crosses. -Horace
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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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You will never do anything in this
world without courage. -James Lane Allen
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God grant me the courage not to give up
what
I think is right,
even though I think it is hopeless.
-Chester W. Nimitz
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The
more you surrender to the fear of someone’s disapproval, the more
you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for
someone’s approval. Within
you is a void that should have been filled by
self-esteem. When you
attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead,
the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows
stronger. The only
solution is to summon the courage to honor your own
judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.
-Nathaniel
Branden
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Greatness,
in the last analysis, is largely bravery--courage
in
escaping from
old ideas and old standards.
-James Harvey Robinson
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Courage takes many
forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage.
Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave
pain,
to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy
in life;
to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
-Howard Cosell
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There is a quiet courage that comes from an
inward spring of confidence
in the meaning and significance of life.
Such courage is an underground river,
flowing far beneath the shifting events of one’s experience,
keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.
-Howard Thurman
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You can’t be brave if you’ve only had
wonderful things happen to you. -Mary Tyler Moore
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What
would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
-Vincent van Gogh
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One
of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself,
know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.
-Sheila
Murray Bethel
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