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Courage Quotes
"Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything."
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"Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties."
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"You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst...And I will definitely give you mine."
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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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"You could rattle the stars,' she whispered. 'You could do anything, if only you dared."
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"But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield."
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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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"Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world."
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
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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."
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"None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much."
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"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
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"The bent but unbroken ones."
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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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"Divorce fear. Court courage. Pursue hope. Marry love."
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"I reached into my pack and held something small in the fist I made. "It's a pocketknife, I said, enunciating each letter. I was asserting myself, I'd snapped out of something; he visibly snapped out of something too. I saw it acutely in his dropping posture: doubt in his movement. I said, "The truck works. And so it did."
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"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
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"It takes guts and bravery and heart to walk a mile in a single girl's shoes. And sometimes a fabulous pedicure."
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"It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead."
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"I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger."
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"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not."
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"Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary"
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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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"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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"Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards."
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"Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment."
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"It takes strength and courage to admit the truth."
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"The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune."
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"Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."
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