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"Everything you dream of is on the other side of fear."
Marie Forleo
"Everything you dream of is on the other side of fear."
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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."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"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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"There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value."
Jeanette Winterson
"There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value."
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"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
Epicurus
"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
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"Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed."
Archibald Marwizi
"Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed."
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"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
Gerry Adams
"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
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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.'"
Salman Rushdie
"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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"He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."
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"Courage isn't instinctive or genetic, it has to be learned and practiced. Why not start today?"
Mensah Oteh
"Courage isn't instinctive or genetic, it has to be learned and practiced. Why not start today?"
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"If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd."
S. A. Tawks
"If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd."
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"Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win."
Auliq Ice
"Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win."
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"You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live."
Hermann Hesse
"You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live."
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"Being brave requires taking deliberate action and doing something new that stretches you beyond your comfort zone."
Susan C. Young
"Being brave requires taking deliberate action and doing something new that stretches you beyond your comfort zone."
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"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."
Stanislaus I
"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."
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"Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth."
Michael Bassey Johnson
"Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth."
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"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."
Dame Edith Evans
"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."
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"True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable."
Jeremy Collier
"True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable."
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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
Paul Tillich
"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
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"Courage in danger is half the battle."
Titus Maccius Plautus
"Courage in danger is half the battle."
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"It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook."
James Keller
"It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook."
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"One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality."
Kenneth Branagh
"One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality."
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"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."
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"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."
Pablo Casals
"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."
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"Being gifted needs courage."
Georg Brandes
"Being gifted needs courage."
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"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."
Herman Melville
"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."
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"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."
Dale Carnegie
"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."
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"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it."
Katherine Anne Porter
"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it."
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"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
Epictetus
"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
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"Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven."
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"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."
Saint Francis de Sales
"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."
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"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault."
Branch Rickey
"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault."
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"We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit."
Tom Brown, Jr.
"We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit."
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"I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist."
Elisabeth Rohm
"I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist."
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"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined."
Leo Rosten
"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined."
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"When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using."
Kirstie Alley
"When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using."
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"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
Alfred North Whitehead
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
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"It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."
Mahatma Gandhi
"It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."
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"Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms."
H. G. Bohn
"Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms."
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"Courage is always rewarded."
Kenny Loggins
"Courage is always rewarded."
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"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
Walter Bagehot
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
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"Yes, you must have the courage of being free."
Jose Carreras
"Yes, you must have the courage of being free."
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"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."
William Faulkner
"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."
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"Fortune favors the brave."
Terence
"Fortune favors the brave."
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
Vittorio Alfieri
"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
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"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."
Titus Maccius Plautus
"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."
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"Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no."
Jose Carreras
"Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no."
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"Though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battle than fly or submit. The defiance of HAorin Thalion is a great deed; and though Morgoth slay the doer he cannot make the deed not to have been. Even the Lords of the West will honour it; and is it not written into the history of Arda, which neither Morgoth nor ManwA, can unwrite?"
J. R. R. Tolkien
"Though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battle than fly or submit. The defiance of HAorin Thalion is a great deed; and though Morgoth slay the doer he cannot make the deed not to have been. Even the Lords of the West will honour it; and is it not written into the history of Arda, which neither Morgoth nor ManwA, can unwrite?"
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"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."
Benjamin Disraeli
"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."
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