Courage Quotes
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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
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Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
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We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly
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I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.
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Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.
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Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
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We are not people apart; there is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely; no reason why we shouldn't suffer to uphold that which we want to endure than it is anyone else. And it is a matter of self-preservation right this very minute...May God give me courage to do my duty and not falter.
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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
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Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Let me tell you right now, you are not alone. Seeking help requires incredible strength and courage. The most powerful weapon you have against bullying is your voice.
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Have the courage to make a mistake.
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No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
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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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Courage is knowing what to fear.
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.
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As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
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A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
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In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
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But you must not think I have not cultivated courage as well—one needs a deal of it to live in this world—courage to brook the sneers of my own peers, courage to dare to be different from my class, courage to dream...for this new age, to fling beauty toward the stars!
