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Courage Quotes
"Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it."
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"Being brave requires taking deliberate action and doing something new that stretches you beyond your comfort zone."
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"When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them."
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"Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results."
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"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
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"The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing."
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"He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice."
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"Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage."
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"Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group."
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"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide."
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"Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed."
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"The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength."
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
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"Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will."
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"A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
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"But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility."
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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
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"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome."
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"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
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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."
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"What you werewill not happen again.the tigers have found meand I do not care."
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"My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid."
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"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."
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"Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat."
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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."
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"There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different."
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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."
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"A rape victim... a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It breaks their confidence in the safety of their little world. It makes them afraid." .... "If you don't fight, it's not quite the same. If they make you help, make you cooperate, then it's not clear to you anymore. Is it rape? You feel dirty, violated, and guilty. Most of all guilty because you should have fought. Especially if you're Mercy and you fight everything."
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"I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living."
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"The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility."
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"If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough!"
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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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