"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning."

Courage, War, Fear, Strength

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"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning."

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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Better hazard once than always be in fear."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Only cowards leave words unspoken."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"Live dangerously and you live right."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

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"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn't take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing."

David Levithan, American Author

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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

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"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."

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"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

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"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

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"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."

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"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

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"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."

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