Quotes about courage
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Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. Norman Mailer
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Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it. Norman Mailer
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There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly. Norman Reilly Raine
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Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses. Oscar Arias
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Have the courage to act instead of react. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The true path requires courage ... and it is possible that the public is not fully ready for the painful truth, ... The truth will prevail. Ehud Barak
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A.J. had a great night. In the second half he did a great job of running the team. His efficiency in shot making and courage to step up in some tough spots put us in a position to win. Rick Carlisle
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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. Donella Meadows
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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage. Sydney Smith
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You will never do anything worthwhile in this world without courage James Allen
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who moves not forward, goes backward. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
courage accepting unafraid
To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid. John Cage
courage giving-up thinking
I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up. Olga Korbut
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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage. Ellen Glasgow
courage greatness endurance
And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance? Epictetus
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It is difficulties that show what men are. Epictetus
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If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve Emily Dickinson
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Davis
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There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil. Ellis Peters
courage honesty
It takes strength and courage to admit the truth. Rick Riordan
courage fate enemy
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. Thucydides
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The secret of freedom, courage.... Thucydides
courage opposites bravery
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. Robert Anthony
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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.] Robert A. Heinlein
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas Szasz
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature? Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Ralph Waldo Emerson
courage ideals
Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What a new face courage puts on everything! Ralph Waldo Emerson