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" Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company. "

Patrick Lencioni

Courage

Company

Discipline

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" Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. "

" Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization. "

" Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. "

" The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. "

" It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out. "

" Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. "

" From caring comes courage. "

Lao Tzu

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" Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Act

Sometimes

Live

" Courage is action, not talk. "

" I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Strength

Courage

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" Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change. "

" Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. "

" Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. "

Thornton Wilder

Faith

Nothing

" Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are. "

" The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently. "

" It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial. "

" In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale. "

" My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. "

" War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial. "

" In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking. "

" It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. "

" We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Flood

Build

Back

" I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

Congress

Compassion

" Courage breeds leadership. "

" In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. "

" Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes. "

" Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. "

" Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. "

" 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. "

" 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. "