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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
– Alexander Berkman
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Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
– Thomas a Kempis
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
– John Steinbeck
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TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
– Sharon Stone
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
– Laura Linney
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Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.
– Rahm Emanuel
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To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
– George Crabbe
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To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.
– Dale Murphy
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Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
– Carol P. Christ
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Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
– John M. McHugh
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Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.
– Michael D. Higgins
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
– Albert Camus
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Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
– Emily Greene Balch
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
– Major Taylor
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Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
– Elias Hicks
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There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
– David Letterman
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There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
– Bill Hunter
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
– Abu Bakar Bashir
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There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
– Robert Dale Owen
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There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
– Alfred P. Sloan
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
– Orison Swett Marden
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
– Daniel Ellsberg
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
– Moliere
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There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
– Geraldine Brooks
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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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The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
– George Weinberg
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The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
– Peter Fonda
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
– Carl Lewis
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The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.
– Rene Cassin
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The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.
– Christopher Monckton
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The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
– Nick Clooney
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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
– Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
– Thomas S. Monson
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The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
– Dean Smith
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The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
– Townsend Harris
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The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.
– Nikki Haley
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
– Rollo May
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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
– Jim Hightower
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
– George Bernard Shaw
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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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The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
– Carson Daly
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The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
– James Hillman
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The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.
– Portia de Rossi
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The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
– Alexandra Fuller
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
– Van Wyck Brooks
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
– Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
– Dianne Feinstein
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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
– Paul Tillich
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
– Paul Tillich
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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
– Pam Brown
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The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
– Geraldo Rivera
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
– Christopher Morley
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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
– Mercy Otis Warren
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The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
– Ai Weiwei
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That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
– Kerry Washington
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Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
– Gerry Adams
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Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
– George A. Sheehan
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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
– John Wooden
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
– Walter Lord
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
– Bear Grylls
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Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
– John Keegan
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
– Zora Neale Hurston
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
– Geraldine Brooks
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Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
– Bob Filner
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Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
– William L. Jenkins
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Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
– Don Young
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
– George Santayana
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
– Gary Oldman
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
– King Abdullah II
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President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.
– Ken Salazar
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Political courage is not political suicide.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
– Wendell Phillips
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
– Jim Valvano
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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
– Jenny Shipley
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
– Desmond Tutu
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Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
– Linda McCartney
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Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
– Angela Merkel
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
– Rebecca Harding Davis
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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
– Kathryn Bigelow
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
– Kenneth Branagh
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
– Katherine Anne Porter
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One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
– Josefina Vazquez Mota
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
– Ben Okri
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One man with courage makes a majority.
– Andrew Jackson
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One man with courage is a majority.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
– Theodore Sturgeon
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On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
– Marvin Olasky
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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
– Jeff Goodell
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Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.
– Mira Sorvino
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
– Dean Koontz
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
– Ed Koch
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Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
– Joseph Smith, Jr.
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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
– John Bunyan
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My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
– Clay Aiken
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