courage
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It is
better to die on your feet
than live on your knees.
Dolores Ibarruri
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Courage is what preserves our
liberty, safety, life, and our homes and
parents,
our
country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus
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The world is not perishing for the want of
clever or
talented or well-meaning people. It is perishing
for the want of people of courage and resolution.
Robert J. McCracken
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The
more you surrender to the fear of someone’s disapproval, the more
you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for
someone’s approval. Within
you is a void that should have been filled by
self-esteem. When you
attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead,
the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows
stronger. The only
solution is to summon the courage to honor your own
judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.
Nathaniel
Branden
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Courage
is doing what you're
afraid to do. There can be no
courage
unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage
is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue
that it is always respected, even when it is
associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson |
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Because
a person has failed once or twice or a dozen times,
you
don't want to set that person down as a failure
till he or she's dead or
loses their courage--and that's the same thing.
George Horace Lorimer |
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Courage is a kind
of salvation.
Plato
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The brave
person is not one who feels
no fear,
For that were stupid and
irrational;
But one, whose noble soul
its fear subdues,
And bravely dares
the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie
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Courage is the price
that life extracts for
granting peace. The
soul
that knows it
not, knows no release from little things.
Amelia Earhart
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Courage is required not only in a
person's occasional crucial decision for
one's own freedom,
but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place
the
bricks
in the structure of his building of oneself into a
person
who acts with freedom and responsibility.
Rollo May
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love
or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives
reality to all
other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love
pales into
dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism. |
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Dare to begin! One who postpones living
rightly is like the rustic
who waits for the river to run
out before he crosses.
Horace
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We
need the courage to start
and
continue what we
should do, and courage
to stop what we shouldn't
do.
Richard
L. Evans
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Great things are done
more through courage than through wisdom.
German proverb
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You will never do anything in this
world without courage.
James Lane Allen |
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God grant me the courage not to give up
what
I think
is right,
even though I think it is hopeless.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz |
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Greatness,
in the last analysis, is largely bravery--courage
in
escaping from
old ideas and old standards.
James Harvey Robinson
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We have
to be braver than we think we can be, because God
is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
Madeleine L'Engle |
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Courage takes many
forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage.
Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave
pain,
to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy
in life;
to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
Howard Cosell
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It
is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human
history is shaped.
Each time a person stands up for an ideal or strikes out
against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and
crossing
each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those
ripples build a current which can sweep down
the mightiest
walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy
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There is a quiet courage that comes from an
inward spring of confidence
in the meaning and significance of life.
Such courage is an underground
river,
flowing far beneath the shifting events of one’s experience,
keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.
Howard Thurman |
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You can’t be brave if you’ve only had
wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore |
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What
would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh |
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One
of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself,
know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.
Sheila
Murray Bethel
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It
is not those who commit the least faults who are the
most holy,
but those who have the greatest courage, the
greatest generosity,
the greatest love, who make the boldest
efforts to overcome themselves,
and are not immediately
apprehensive about tripping.
Francis
de Sales |
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Courage
begins when we can admit that there is no life without
some pain,
some frustration; that there is no tragic
accident to which we are immune;
and that beyond the
normal exercise of prudence we can do nothing about it.
But
courage goes on to see that the triumph of life is not
in
pains avoided, but in joys lived completely in the
moment of their happening.
Courage lies in never
taking so much as a good meal or a day of health and
fair weather for granted. It lies in learning to
be aware of our moments of
happiness as sharply as our
moments of pain. We need not be afraid to
weep
when we have cause to weep, so long as we can really
rejoice at every cause for rejoicing.
Victoria
Lincoln |
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Life shrinks or expands
according to one's courage.
Anaïs Nin |
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It takes a great deal of
bravery to stand up to our enemies,
but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
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There are so many ways to be
brave in this world. Sometimes bravery
involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or
for
someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever
known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something
greater.
But sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain,
and the
work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.
That is the sort of bravery I must have now.
Veronica Roth
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It isn't
for the moment you are struck that you need courage,
but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Anne Morrow
Lindbergh |
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No great thing comes to any
person unless that person has courage.
James Gibbons |
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We must never
forget that today's legendary achievements--awesome as
they may seem--were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not
the
capacity never to be afraid; as Karl Barth reminds us,
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
John R. Claypool
Tracks of a Fellow Struggler |
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Courage.
. . . It's just another word for inner strength, presence of mind
against odds, determination to hang in there, to venture, persevere,
and
withstand hardship. It's got keeping power. . . . It's what
makes the
amputee reject pity and continue to take life by the throat.
It's what
forces every married couple having trouble never to say,
"Let's terminate."
It's what encourages the divorcee to face tomorrow. It's what
upholds
the young mother with kids in spite of a personal energy crisis. . . .
Every
day, in some way, your courage will be tested. Your test may be
as simple
as saying, "No," as uneventful as facing a pile of dirty
laundry, or as unknown
and unheralded as an inner struggle between right and wrong.
God's
medal-of-honor winners are made in secret because most
of their courageous acts occur deep down inside.
Charles Swindoll
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Courage is the quality
that keeps a creative thinker going even through
failure and despair, for if they don't keep going they will not
survive. . . .
It takes courage to create ideas and to make them live and serve.
Wilferd A.
Peterson |
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The
only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to
the next.
Mignon McLaughlin |
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