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Courage Quotes
"Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected."
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"Everything you dream of is on the other side of fear."
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"When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up."
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"One needs confidence in the morning and courage at night."
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"The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear."
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"Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?"
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"Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do."
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
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"Defeat the demons of self-doubt and self-loathing by being your own hero/heroine of self-compassion."
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"And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness."
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"Whenever we make the choice to bring fear into the light with truth-seeking questions, we shall find soul-growing answers."
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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."
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"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."
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"Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down his face, that he might be spared the terrible cup ahead of him, the betrayal and abandonment by his friends, death on the cross. Because Jesus cried out in anguish, we may too. But our fear is less frequent and infinitely less if we are close to the Creator. Jesus, having cried out, then let his fear go, and moved on."
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"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
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"Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all."
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"Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter."
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"But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right."
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"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."
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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."
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"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
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"For us to move forward, we have to develop the courage to forward what is behind...the hurt/pain and unpleasant memories that haunt us in the dark moments. We must hold on to our faith as we step out in boldness, strongly believing that our very best lies ahead."
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"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."
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"Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs, it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe."
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"Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back."
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"Be courageous in yourdecision-making. Stand by your choices and never look back."
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"My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it."
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"Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one to the count. I didn't feel scared. I didn't think to panic. The trail wasn't burning. I was raw, ripe for loving. I wasn't stopping."
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"A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly."
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"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."
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