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If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.
– Romeo LeBlanc
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
– Barry Lopez
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A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
– Mickey Mantle
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
– Michel de Montaigne
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
– Michel de Montaigne
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A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.
– Sun Myung Moon
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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
– Mary Tyler Moore
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Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
– Neal A. Maxwell
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
– Ian Mcewan
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The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
– Bryan Miller
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A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
– Lord Moran
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
– Earl Nightingale
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Part of courage is simple consistency.
– Peggy Noonan
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They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.
– Donald O'Connor
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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
– Georgia O'Keefe
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
– George S. Patton
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
– Plato
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
– Channing Pollock
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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
– Coventry Patmore
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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
– John Petit-Senn
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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.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
– Tony Randall
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
– Dan Rather
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There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
– Ronald Reagan
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Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
– Bob Richards
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
– Jean Paul Richter
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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
– James Robinson
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
– Erwin Rommel
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It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
– Judith Rossner
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My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
– Peter Paul Rubens
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Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
– Juan Ruiz
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A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
– Jalal Talabani
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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
– James Thomson
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
– Paul Tillich
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
– J. R. R. Tolkien
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
– Vincent van Gogh
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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
– Alexandre Vinet
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In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
– Virgil
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
– Virginia Woolf
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Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
– Whitney M. Young
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Sometimes, a woman filled with all sorts of uncertainties in most of the areas of life and emotion, will have her only confidence and independence in her fashion-sense. I'm sure this is a misfortune. Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
– Loretta Young
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
– Kong Fu Zi
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To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
– Confucius
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A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
– Sir James Glover
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
– Hermann Hesse
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
– Sydney Smith
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
– Ralph W. Sockman
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
– Steve Jobs
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Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
– Gerry Adams
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You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
– Paul Robeson
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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
– George Konrad
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You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
– Kenny Loggins
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You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
– Michelle Obama
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You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.
– Portia de Rossi
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You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
– Charles Stanley
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You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
– Liz Phair
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You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
– William J. H. Boetcker
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Yes, you must have the courage of being free.
– Jose Carreras
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Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
– Mary Wesley
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
– Baltasar Gracian
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With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.
– Jeff Ament
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
– Samuel E. Morison
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With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
– John Doolittle
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With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
– Jerry Costello
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With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
– Margaret Mitchell
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With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
– Dan Lipinski
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Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
– Robert Dale Owen
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
– Confucius
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
– William Shakespeare
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
– James Allen
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When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
– Della Reese
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When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.
– Ricky Williams
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When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
– Sam Raimi
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
– Eamon de Valera
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When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.
– John Carpenter
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When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
– Kirstie Alley
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When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
– Charles Stanley
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
– William Samuel Johnson
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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
– Logan P. Smith
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
– Rand Paul
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
– Eddie Marsan
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Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
– Evander Holyfield
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Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
– Paul Keating
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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
– Gloria Steinem
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We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
– Joe Biden
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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
– Sarojini Naidu
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We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.
– Brian Sandoval
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
– Valerie Jarrett
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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
– Stokely Carmichael
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We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.
– Guy Laliberte
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We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
– Jim Davis
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Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
– Ron Fournier
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