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Courage |
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| “Two thirds of help is to give
courage.” |
| -- Irish
Proverb |
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"He who loses
wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage
loses all." |
| --
Miguel
De Cervantes, Spanish writer |
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| “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the
quality which guarantees all others.” |
| -- Winston Churchill |
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"A
great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage." |
| --
Sydney
Smith |
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| "Courage is a scorner of
things which inspire fear." |
| -- Marcus Annaeus Seneca |
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| "There is plenty of courage
among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete." |
| -- Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968),
American memoirist, lecturer |
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| "The paradox of courage is
that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep
it." |
| -- G. K. Chesterton |
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"The
ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but
where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." |
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--
Martin
Luther King, Jr. |
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"Courage is the ladder on which all the other
virtues mount."
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--
Anonymous |
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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.” |
| -- Winston Churchill |
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| "Courage is doing what you
think needs to be done. No more. no less." |
| --
Alfred Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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| “Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.” |
| -- Leo Rosten |
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"Courage is fear holding on
a minute longer."
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-- Gen. George S. Patton |
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| "Correction does much, but
encouragement does more." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832), German writer, scientist |
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| "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's
courage."
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--
Anais Nin |
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| “Courage
in danger is half the battle.” |
| -- Titus Plautus |
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| "Without justice courage is
weak." |
| -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90),
American public official |
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| "One man with courage is a
majority." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
3rd US President |
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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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- "The only courage that matters is the kind that
gets you from one moment to the next."
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| -- Mignon McLaughlin |
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- "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage
to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
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| -- Erica Jong |
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"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."
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| --
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Conscience is the root of all true
courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience." |
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--
James Freeman Clarke,
American minister, theologian, and author
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| "Courage is the mastery of fear - not the absence of fear."
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| -- Mark Twain
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- "One man scorned and covered with scars still
strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable
stars; and the world will be better for this."
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| -- Joe Darion, American lyricist |
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| "If
you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you
lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it
all. And so today I still have a dream." |
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--
Martin Luther King |
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| "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release."
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| --
Amelia Earhart |
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| "Courage is grace under
pressure." |
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-- Ernest Miller Hemingway
(1899-1961), American writer, journalist |
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| "Often the test of courage is not to
die but to live." |
| -- Conte Vittorio Alfieri
(1749-1803), Italian playwright |
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"Lord 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." |
| -- Saint Francis of Assisi
(1182-1226) |
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| “I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the
cage he is at least safe from people.” |
| --
George Bernard Shaw |
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| "To see what is right and not to do
it is want of courage." |
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-- Confucius (c. 551-479? BC),
Chinese sage |
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| "Courage is
the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not,
knows no release from little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of
fear." |
| -- Amelia Earhart (1897-1937),
American aviator |
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“Coward: One who, in a
perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.” |
| -- Ambrose Bierce, American writer,
The Devil's Dictionary |
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| "All of our dreams can come true --
if we have the courage to pursue them." |
| -- Walt Disney
(1901-66), American animator, film producer |
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| "Great spirits have
always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot
understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary
prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and
fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear
form." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "I am sure of this, that by going
much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than
from all the wisdom that is in books." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "This is courage in a man: to bear
unflinchingly what heaven sends." |
| -- Euripides (480?-406 BC),
Greek dramatist, "Media", "Hippolytus" |
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| "Man cannot discover new oceans
unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." |
| -- André Gide (1869-1951),
French writer, "The Immoralist" |
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“It is curious that physical
courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so
rare.” |
| --Mark Twain, American writer |
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| "This is courage in a man: to
bear unflinchingly what heaven sends." |
| -- English Proverb |
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| “Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for
the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee.” |
| -- Deuteronomy, The Bible |
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| "The great virtue in life is real
courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them." |
| -- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
(1885-1930), British writer |
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| Have courage for the great sorrows
of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously
accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." |
| -- Victor Hugo (1802-85), French
poet, dramatist, writer |
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- "Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a
man would be brave let him obey his conscience."
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| -- James F. Clarke, South African
journalist |
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- "Every serious-minded person knows that a large
part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the
courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of
one's past and present acts."
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| -- John Dewey, American philosopher |
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