Courage Quotes
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To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.
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But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
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All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
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The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.
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Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
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Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
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My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.
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The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.
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The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.
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Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
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Change takes courage.
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Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.
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I have twice gone fishing with rod and line just because other boys asked me to, but this sport was soon made impossible for me by the treatment of the worms that were put on the hook for bait, and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes that were caught. I gave it up, and even found courage enough to dissuade other boys from going.
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She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.
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You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
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A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.
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It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.
