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Courage Quotes
"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"
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"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."
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"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
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"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
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"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
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"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."
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"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
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"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."
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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
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"Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning heart - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart."
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"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."
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"Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage."
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"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."
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"How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized."
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"Don't be afraid of those failures that do not lead to a loss of life or that do not incapacitate people."
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"Stop being the sheep and become the lion my friend!"
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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
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"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
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"Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child."
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"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."
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"Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future."
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".. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure."
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"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."
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"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."
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"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
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"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."
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