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Courage
is never to let your actions
be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler |
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I
wanted you to see what real courage is,
instead of getting an idea
that courage is
a man with a gun in his hand. It's when
you know you're
licked before you begin
but you begin anyway and you see it through
no matter what.
Harper
Lee
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When
you get in a tight place and everything goes against you,
till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer,
never give up
then, for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Courage is a
special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what
ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion
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Last, but by no means least, courage--moral
courage, the courage
of one's convictions, the courage to
see things through. The world
is in a constant conspiracy
against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of
the crowd
on one side and the voice
of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur
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We
must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the
calculated risk, and to act.
Everyday living requires
courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz |
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The hallmark of courage in our age
of conformity is the capacity to stand
on one's own
convictions--not obstinately or defiantly (these are
gestures
of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gesture
of retaliation,
but simply because these are what one
believes.
Rollo May
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The world has no room for cowards.
We must
all be
ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is
not the less noble because no drum beats before you
when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no
crowds shout your coming when you return from
your daily victory and defeat.
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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One
has to abandon altogether the search for security, and
reach out to the risk of living
with both arms. One has
to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain
as a condition of existence.
One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of
knowing.
One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt
always to total acceptance
of every consequence of living and dying.
Morris
L. West |
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Whatever you do, you need
courage.
Whatever
course you
decide upon,
there is always
someone to
tell
you, you are
wrong. There
are always
difficulties arising
which
tempt
you to believe that your critics
are right.
To map out a course
of action, and follow it to an end,
requires some of the same
courage which a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it
takes brave men and women
to win
them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The
courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than
the courage
of a final moment;
but it is no less than a
magnificent mixture of triumph
and tragedy. A person does
what he or she must--in spite of personal consequences,
in spite
of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the
basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy |
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Courage is resistance to fear,
not absence of it.
Mark Twain |
Perfect
courage is to do unwitnessed what
we should be capable of doing before all the
world.
La Rochefoucauld |
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The hero
is no braver than an ordinary person,
but he or she is brave five
minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Courage is what it takes to stand up
and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Anon |
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Courage and cowardice are antithetical.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of
obstacles and frightening situations;
cowardice is a
submissive surrender to circumstance.
Courage breeds creative self-affirmation;
cowardice
produces destructive self-abnegation.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it;
cowardice
represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
Courageous people never lose the zest for living even though
their life situation is zestless;
cowardly people,
overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will
to live.
We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back
the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King,
Jr. |
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I do not ask to
walk smooth paths
Nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength and fortitude
To climb the rock-strewn road.
Give me such courage I can scale
The hardest peaks alone,
And transform every stumbling block
Into a steppingstone.
Gail Brook Burket |
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I
looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the
masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or
ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood
the meaning of life that they were able both to live and
to die. All these people were well acquainted with the
meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured
privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all
this, not a vain, but a good thing. |
Leo Tolstoy |
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This is
the art of courage: to see things as they are
and still
believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid
the bad,
but those who taste, in living awareness, every
drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln |
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It takes more courage to reveal
insecurities than to hide them,
more strength to relate
to people than to dominate them,
more "manhood"
to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind
reflex.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in
muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras |
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Courage
is more than standing for a firm conviction.
It includes
the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon |
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It is courage,
courage, courage, that raises
the blood of life to
crimson splendor. Live
bravely and
present a brave front
to adversity!
Horace |
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You
gain strength, courage, and
confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear
in the face. You are able
to say
to yourself, "I lived throughthis horror. I can take the next
thing
that comes along."
Eleanor
Roosevelt
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Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracian |
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Ingersoll |
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Courage
is the first of human qualities because
it is the quality
which guarantees all the others.
Winston Churchill
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