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Courage Quotes
"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."
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"He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself."
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"The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm, the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm."
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"If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting."
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"I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this."
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"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength."
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"If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion."
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"Fear makes a cub sound like a lion. Faith makes a lion sound like a cub."
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"(To the haters) You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave."
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"Let us be brave in the face of adversity."
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"A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome."
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"We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but quite firm. "On a planet that has given in. So you must prepare to be very strong."
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"When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it."
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
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"One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent."
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"The price of greatness is exorbitant, only those rich in courage can afford it."
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"To become a better you, hurry up and take risks."
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"He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four."
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"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
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"Find excuses to live. Find excuses to be happy. The world provides enormous opportunities to the courageous."
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"These near death escapades didn't put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn't stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn't let past experiences put me off."
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"Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life."
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