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Courage Quotes
"Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it."
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"Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light."
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"Storms are relentless and unforgiving. You know it's there, you feel it surrounding you, threatening to consume you should you dare to look, dare to behold the captivating wonder...Yet, fear grips. For although you know that it could swallow you whole and rip you to shreds, if you do not, eventually, the storm will dissipate, leaving you trembling and empty...We storms know this..."
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"It's too risky", said doubters. "It's too difficult", said scoffers. "It's pointless", said mockers. "It's impossible", said haters. "It's already done", said believers."
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"Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do."
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"I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that."
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"Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties."
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"Be daring and determined. There is nothing to lose in this life."
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"Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat."
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"I'd like to somehow find the courage to be on the outside who I am on the inside."
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"Jump and let's build our wings on the way down."
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"Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."
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"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."
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"It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins."
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"Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not."
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"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."
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"My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self."
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"If you're brave enough to get through the darkness then you shall shine in the light."
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"Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it's understanding the necessity of both; it's engaging. It's being all in."
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"I'm impressed you left to keep everyone safe. He tenderly massaged the area above my hipbone with his right thumb.'I've seen vampire men cry and piss their pants after one hour in the sewers by themselves. You've been walking most of the day and all alone."
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"If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle, but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life."
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"The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach."
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"I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient."
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"Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?"
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"Taking a step in the dark is braver than taking a leap in light."
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"Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary"
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"Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown."
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"Yeah,' Chris said. 'I lose a couple limbs getting drunk and falling into harvesting combine, I'm an idiot. I lose the same limbs because I happened to be standing next to the right door when the ship was damaged, I'm a hero."
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"Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit."
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"The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right, just, and honorable."
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"It takes strength and courage to admit the truth."
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"The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
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