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" Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. "
Dan Rather
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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. "
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" Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
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" He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. "
Miguel de Cervantes
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" It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it. "
Willy Brandt
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" I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it. "
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" My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. "
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" What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures. "
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" I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. "
Elizabeth Taylor
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" Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. "
Lech Walesa
" A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. "
James Callaghan
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" I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. "
Jeff Koons
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" Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement. "
Athol Fugard
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" Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. "
John Bytheway
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" It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut. "
Pico Iyer
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" We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience. "
Walter Gropius
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" To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness. "
Olga Kurylenko
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" Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. "
Mignon McLaughlin
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" Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage. "
Frances Perkins
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" The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. "
Marlon Brando
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" Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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" Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. "
Jean Paul
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" I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage. "
Edith Evans
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" It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. "
Cesar Chavez
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" Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. "
Erich Fromm
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" At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. "
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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" I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. "
Jane Campion
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" Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. "
Harper Lee
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" Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. "
Louis D. Brandeis
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" 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. "
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" Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. "
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