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Courage Quotes
"You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you!You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility."
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"That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say."
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"The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we'd like to be. And that sucks. But when you're confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up."
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"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."
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"The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time."
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"There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake."
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"There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life."
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"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."
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"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by."
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"The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular."
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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
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"Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you."
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"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet."
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"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
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"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
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"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."
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"Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them."
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"The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends."
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"I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test."
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"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
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"Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'"
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"Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear."
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